I am convinced that I will never ever be able to get a total grip on the complex realities of the continuing tribulations with Israel and the Occupying territories as much as I try. And try I do … and typically with me my chosen method is through the medium of film, and so seized … Continue reading
The surprising element of Michael Winterbottom’s new bio-pic on the life of Paul Raymond the self styled ‘King of Soho’ in London in the swinging sixties, is that he has chosen to present him as a lovable rogue who deserves our sympathy as ‘sex’ made him very rich but extremely unhappy. After all Raymond was … Continue reading
Raquel has been the live-in Maid at the home of a wealthy middle class family in Santiago, Chile for the past 20 years. Pilar, her very p.c. employer insists on claiming that Raquel is one of the family, but she’s obviously not. In the opening sequence we see everyone somewhat reluctantly celebrating her birthday in … Continue reading
You so know you are at SUNDANCE when you dash from seeing ‘SIGHTSEER’ where a couple on on touring vacation just annihilate anyone who upsets them in the slightest, to straight away catching ‘THE MOO MAN’ a charming documentary about a rather disarming farmer who is completely besotted with his cows who he hopes will … Continue reading
According to this new documentary from filmmakers Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin it would seem that everybody has wildly exaggerated polarizing ideas about who Viktor Anatolyevich Bout really is. None more so than Mr Bout himself who considers himself simply as a devoted family man and a highly successful international entrepreneur, and the D.E.A. who claim that his … Continue reading