To Brits of a certain age, particularly Londoners, despite their acts of unspeakable violence the Kray Brothers have always been considered with great affection as part of the folklore of the East End in the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Their exploits filled the tabloid newspapers at the time, as despite their thinly veiled gangster activities … Continue reading
In 1955 the actor James Dean has just completed his first starring role in Elia Kazan’s “East of Eden” and although the movie had not premiered yet, Warner Brothers Studio knew that when the film was released he would become a major star. Most of all Dean himself knew this and as part of his … Continue reading
Lion is such a highly emotional true life story about a 5 year boy who is accidentally separated from his family, is shipped overseas, but still never forgets his family, that it simply cannot fail to tug at the heartstrings of even the most cynical audience. Writer Luke Davies and director Garth Davis have deliberately vamped up … Continue reading
When Linda Boreman’s father retired from the N.Y. Police Department the family moved to Davie, Florida to catch some sun. Three years later Linda also caught the wrath of her strict Catholic parents when she had a child out of wedlock which they had whisked away straight after birth and had adopted. Linda was still … Continue reading
This movie from 2010 is the true a group of some 180 women machinists in the Ford Factory in Dagenham, a London suburb, who in 1968 defied the fiercely male entrenched society at the time and did the unheard of thing by going out on strike and demanding equal pay. Lined up against them were Trade Union Officials … Continue reading