On paper Margaret and Nate’s friendship seems odd verging on highly unlikely. She is a 52-year-old unmarried woman with an odd sense of style who cannot recall her last relationship and works in a Coffee Shop for minimum wage whilst she yearns to follow her dream of being a Stand Up Comic. He is a … Continue reading
The most wonderful element of David Chase’s coming-of-age drama set in the 1960’s is the glorious music. This is the time when The Beatles started finding success and the world was also discovering the likes of The Rolling Stones. Douglas an American/Italian geeky high school kid in New Jersey gets invited by his best … Continue reading
This rather odd little tale starts with a rather forlorn 13 year old girl arriving at Jerusalem airport from California and feeling abandoned and looking for someone to meet her. That someone is her father Shaul who she has not seen for some time, and has yet to discover that he is a homeless drifter … Continue reading
The opening scenes show a cat burglar breaking into a house in the middle of a night, and as he scans the room with his flashlight he spies a photograph which he picks up to examine before he drops it and it smashes on the ground. Frank has broken into his own house and the … Continue reading
The wonderful thing about David O. Russell’s new movie is you are never quite sure what you are being served up. It’s the story of bipolar 30 something-year-old Patrick released prematurely from Mental Hospital by his doting mother and who now spends every moment of the day and night obsessing about getting his wife Nikki … Continue reading