The celebrated South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook manages to pack a lot of detail into the entire 2 1/2 hours of the erotic and exotic drama of his latest stunning epic The Handmaiden. Park has adapted Sarah Walter’s historical crime novel Fingersmith which was set in Victorian Britain, and transposed to Japanese occupied Korea … Continue reading
You would have had to be living on another planet for the past couple of decades not to know that all the movies made by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino contain some of the most excruciating gratuitous violence ever seen on the screen. However you will also know, and hopefully appreciate, that at the same time they … Continue reading
You could be mistaken in thinking that naming this rather pedestrian drama about middle-aged rock star The High Note an act of irony, but sadly it isn’t . In her first movie starring role, Golden Globe Winner Tracee Ellis Ross (Blackish) plays Grace Davis and cuts a dashing figure in her expensive wardrobe as … Continue reading
Most of us in life have to just simply pick ourselves up and get over it on our own when our hearts are broken for the first time. Ethan Hawke however went one better and wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about his own heartbreak and then adapted it into a movie that he also directed and acted … Continue reading
Lucas is slowly getting his life together after a messy divorce with a traumatic custody battle, and also losing his teaching job as a result of the recession. Now in this small Danish country town he is working helping out at a kindergarten in the day and hanging out having fun with his male friends at … Continue reading