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    The Little Hours

      Writer/director Jeff Baena ‘s new movie is very loosely based on a very tiny part of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century classic The Decameron using two of the many bawdy stories to make this amusing comedy of his.  Using a talented cast of actors most of whom are usually found in TV series, a good part of The … Continue reading

    The Man Who Invented Christmas

      This is the fictional story of how the great British Victorian novelist Charles Dickens came to write his classic tale that many hold responsible for making Christmas one our most popular holidays.  When we first catch sight of Dickens (Dan Stevens) he is touring America at the height of his fame.  When he returns … Continue reading

    The Man Who Knew Infinity

    This well-meaning biopic about a lowly Indian Clerk who is a self-taught maths genius who at the beginning of the last century claimed he could “give meaning to negative values of the gamma function” a major feat that had baffled the most learned British professors for decades, sadly does not add up to much.   It is … Continue reading

    The Outrageous Sophie Tucker

    The late great Sophie Tucker was one the World’s most popular and successful entertainers for the first half of the 20 Century.  This very early superstar with her wonderful range of comic and risque songs was one of the first women in show business who pioneered the way grabbing top billing in Vaudeville Theater, on … Continue reading

    The Roads Not Taken: the latest film by Sally Potter

      The British filmmaker Sally Potter’s films always attract a respectable following with arthouse audiences, but with the exception of ‘Orlando’, none of them have been commercially successful.  Several of them, like this new movie, received mixed critical reviews mainly because they are too often considered indulgent and too personal. Like Leo (Javier Bardem) the … Continue reading

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