The movie starts with the invasion of Palestine by the Israeli Army in 1948 and what follows is a very highly personalized account by an Arab Israeli of how life has continued there since then. Most of the story is about filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s parents, and tell how his father’s resistance to the occupying forces … Continue reading
The only one food that Nigel Slater’s mother could cook without ruining it was toast, and so consequently this was his staple diet as a young middle-class boy grooming up in Wolverhampton, a town in the British Midlands, in the 1960’s. Late at night Nigel would surreptitiously read cookery books in bed by torchlight pining … Continue reading
One of the more difficult aspects to swallow regarding the un-level playing fields of the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign were rather scurrilous claims regarding Senator John Kerry’s Vietnam War record. They proved to be totally unfounded but only after they had caused unrepairable damage. At the very same time there questions were raised about the … Continue reading
When the editors of The New York Times discovered that investigative journalist Michael Finkel had tinkered with the truth when he filed a report of modern day slavery in Africa they promptly fired him. Licking his wounds back home in Montana the disgraced reporter tried to kickstart his stalled career but he was shunned by everyone, … Continue reading
For her third time behind the camera actress/ superstar, UN Special Ambassador, Honorary Dame of the British Empire, and mother of countless children, Angelina Jolie plumped for a rather old-fashioned WW2 drama. With a script from Oscar winners Ethan and Joel Cohen (who rarely write for other directors) adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling biography, ‘Unbroken’ … Continue reading