Roman Polanski has co-adapted Yasmin Reza’s Tony Award Winning play ‘God of Carnage’ into a movie and despite the performances and Reza’s wonderful words it does still feel very much like a play that just happens to have been filmed. All the action takes place in a very comfortable high-rise apartment in Brooklyn on … Continue reading
Jack Abramoff was one of the most successful political Lobbyists in Washington. He was also a brazen swindler and an egotistical crook who was illegally bank-rolling seemingly half the Republican Party (and a few Democrats too) ostensibly to further his Client’s ‘causes’, but in reality the money he stole from all of them primarily lined … Continue reading
A fascinating documentary that tracked the rise and fall of the powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff who at one time was funneling huge funds to help bank roll most of the Republican Party’s key players and a few minor Democrats too. It was ill-gained money that he wrangled out of Indian Tribes and the Government of … Continue reading
One can only imagine the fact that filmmaker Werner Herzog is the auteur that he is, played a crucial part in the French Culture Ministry allowing only him this unprecedented exclusive access to make this extraordinary film. ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ is his documentary on some stunning caves in Southern France only discovered as recently … Continue reading
Childhood sweethearts Celeste and Jesse promised each other they would be together forever, but after six years of marriage they call it quits. But they never really plan to move on with their lives as Jesse just moves out to the studio in the backyard of their L.A. house and they still share all their meals together. Their … Continue reading