The picturesque Czech countryside is the setting for an idyllic summer wedding. It’s the second time around for Radim the groom who ended up with Dominik a 12 year old son when his first marriage ended, and also the second go for his bride Tereza who was left with a broken heart. When the wedding … Continue reading
This is a filmed adaptation of celebrated British playwright David Storey’s stage play that opened in London Royal Court Theatre in 1969. Storey was a leading exponent of ‘kitchen sink drama’ which in the late 1960’s atypically was a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in terraced … Continue reading
Somewhere in upstate New York teenage Gracie is on the banks of a river where she is rooting out rocks for her collection when she discovers the half naked body of one of the boys from her school. The corpse is Jamie Marks a quiet nerdy boy who had been the butt of other kids … Continue reading
In this lightweight implausible and gloriously silly movie Robert Downey Jnr. plays a petty thief who specializes in robbing toy stores and who stumbles into being an actor in a twist that only happens in movies. To train him for the role of a Private Eye, the film’s Producers assign him to work with a gay … Continue reading
When watching Bulgarian filmmaker Svetoslav Draganov’s new documentary about the three Liliev brothers unfold, you can be forgiven in thinking at first that there is possibly more than a touch or irony in the title of his film. The brothers share their surname, but that’s where the similarity ends. Their mother died a few years … Continue reading