The tragic event of 29 years old news reporter Christine Chubbock who very dramatically blew her brains out live on local TV in Sarasota back in 1974 is a well-recorded incident that is hard to forget. However, what is not known at all is what could have possibly happened in Christine’s life that was so very dire … Continue reading
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert’s very affectionate portrait of the L.A. Times celebrated food critic Jonathan Gold is as upbeat and sunny as this Pulitzer winner’s own writing. The movie’s focus is very much on how this native Los Angeleno has an inexhaustible passion for rooting out unlikely culinary delights and then singing their praises, and we … Continue reading
The year is 1942 and Avi a German Jew gets stranded in a Forest as he tries to escape to Switzerland. He is rescued by a Fritz a burly local farmer who provides him with a safe refuge in return for Avi’s help as he has been running his rather isolated farm with just his … Continue reading
The very first thing you notice about the young Ukrainian ballet superstar Sergei Polunin is his deep set of piercing eyes which somehow seem to unnerve him as much as the people he stares at. He cuts a striking figure shirtless displaying a profusion of tattoos and his taut sinewy body with perfect abs clad … Continue reading
From the opening scenes when Mitchell Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife Julia (Heather Lind) are bickering whilst driving in New York traffic when their car gets suddenly sideswiped killing Julia, we are on edge expecting more trauma at any moment. As Davis goes into a state of shock he has no idea how to … Continue reading