Horror movies are not something you will find reviewed on these pages very often at all as frankly it is a movie genre we loathe and tend to avoid them as often as we can. We did naturally have to make an exception for Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ which we have been extremely curious … Continue reading
Marathon runner Otto Wall was so obsessed with his training schedule and winning trophies to impress Edie his young daughter, that he failed to notice that his wife Annie didn’t share his enthusiasm for his passion or for him either. When she asked him to join her for a session with a Therapist that he … Continue reading
Retired school teacher Carol Peterson has been widowed 20 years but it isn’t until her pet dog gets sick and has to be put down that she realizes how lonely she really is. True she has her three best girlfriends who she plays cards with and gossips when sipping countless glasses of chardonnay (with little visible effect) … Continue reading
Even when this rather entertaining road-movie dripping with sentimentality from Israeli filmmaker Dani Menkin ends, you cannot help think that this would have all played out so much better if it had been filmed as a documentary. As we follow recently fired cinema projectionist 60-year-old Ronnie (Alon Aboutpoul) leave Tel Aviv to fly to NY … Continue reading
We are sadly too used to Hollywood making big-budget remakes of successful independent European films which inevitable end up as poor shadows of the original and fail at the box office. e.g. the French ‘Anthony Zimmer‘ that became the big Angelina Jolie dud ‘The Tourist‘. However in the case of the Spanish sex comedy ‘Kiki’ … Continue reading