The title of this charming coming-of-age bittersweet comedy refers to the rear facing third seat in a massive old station where put-upon young Duncan is sat for the journey to the beach house for the summer vacations. The other passengers …. his mother, and a teenage girl are asleep, so Trent his mother’s new boyfriend … Continue reading
This is such an unlikely story of seven siblings who were raised in the heart of New York’s Lower East Side by a tyrannical father and subservient mother who only allowed them to venture outside the front door of their apartment once or twice a year throughout their childhood, that it at first seems like … Continue reading
Filmmaker R J Cutler seems to be establishing something of a career out of making documentaries of self-centred stubborn arrogant people who have no respect for their colleagues and totally disregard their viewpoint. His last one was on Anna Wintour in ‘The September Issue’ and apart from her dress sense and her political views, she … Continue reading
Martin Bonner is at crossroads in his life, and so too is Travis Holloway. Total strangers who would appear to have little in common, and are thrown together by circumstances, and who become the most unlikely friends when they find out they are not that different after all. Martin is in his mid 50s and … Continue reading
From the photo on the poster showing a rather stunned Sean Penn ‘dragged up’ as a lookalike of The Cure’s Robert Smith you sense that there is another superlative performance in store in a potentially fascinating new movie. But nothing is ever what it first seems, and the masterful Penn playing Cheyenne a bored and depressed … Continue reading