The Assistant
French directing duo Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri are back with a new movie after an absence of ten years from our screens. For their return they have chosen a wonderfully tense and stylized very European thriller about a grieving mother exacting revenge for the death of her teenager Sebastian son who was killed in a car accident nine … Continue reading
The Booksellers : a glimpse into a genteel world that maybe disappearing
According to most of the people featured in this new documentary the world of antiquarian bookselling is gently standing by watching its own demise. Everyone involved may have a different opinion on its potential survival, but they are all unanimous in who/what is to blame i.e. the internet. In New York from the 1890s to … Continue reading
The Courier : the most unlikely true Spy story ever
The Courier takes us back to the time last century when a successful British Businessman was recruited by the MI6 the UK’s Spy Service to spy on Russia . Those were the (good) old days when we still had the old-fashioned cloak and dagger real-life spies and Russia was the ONLY country that was … Continue reading
The Disappearance of My Mother: Filmmaker’s ode to his elderly supermodel mother
Exactly why the veteran former supermodel Benedetta Barzini allowed her filmmaker son Beniamino Barrese to make this his very documentary on her is very unclear as most of the time she simply barks at him to F–k Off! At 76 years old and with her well-worn face, it is still easy to see that … Continue reading
The Disaster Artist
Only a prolific actor/filmmaker like James Franco who races through a multitude of projects faster than the speed of light would have ever dreamt of making a movie like The Disaster Artist. Most of Franco’s cinematic ideas always look much better on paper than on the screen, and for someone who has more failures than successes, he … Continue reading