Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) is very pushy. And he’s a chancer too who just loves trying to make big financial ‘deals’ that are usually way out of his league, and with high flyers whose P.A.’s even refuse to return his calls. This new movie that charters Norman’s rise and fall throws us into the deep … Continue reading
Person to Person is an odd New York centric dramedy about a random group of locals whose lives in this one single day loosely overlap. They are small people whose real common thread is that they all make a great deal out of what boils down to being very little indeed. There is bearded Benny … Continue reading
Veteran British Director John Boorman returns to his roots with this new movie …..his first for several years …picking up the story line from his masterful Oscar multi-nominated semi-autobiographical ‘Hope & Glory’ about a nine year old boy living through the London Blitz . Now a decade later young Bill Rohan (aka Boorman) is 18 … Continue reading
This latest starring role for veteran actor Robert De Niro of an aging stand-up comedian who is trying to resurrect his faded career, was evidently a passion project that he had been pursuing for years. It is a pity then that despite his unquestionable charm, and talent of course, that this new movie sadly ends … Continue reading
A morbidly obese unemployed hairdresser in Eastern Berlin is sent by Social Services for a job interview in a Hair Salon in a Shopping Mall which she fails to get the job as she is not ‘asthetically pleasing’ ….. the Owners actually words were “what we sell is beauty, and you’re not beautiful, my dear”. Hard … Continue reading