PRINCE AVALANCHE
This unlikely synopsis of two loners spending the summer painting the yellow lines on a deserted highway in the backwoods of Texas turned out to be quiet wee gem of an oddball movie. Set in 1988 when time really seemed to stand still, it is the most gentlest of buddy movies where a budding relationship … Continue reading
PRIVATE ROMEO
Over a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an Exercise and they are ordered to carry on with their studies regardless. In the English Literature Class they are studying ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ and the two young men reading the leads begin … Continue reading
PROMISED LAND
It seems a tad ingenious to say it but this earnest movie that tries to take the moral high ground on the contentious issue of fracking is frankly boring. Never quite too sure to be a poignant lesson on an important environmental issue or just an entertaining story, it ends up taking the middle ground … Continue reading
Promising Young Woman
There is no actual connection between Emerald Fennell last acting role to a her writing/directing debut but it’s worth mentioning. After playing Prince Charles long suffering mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles in The Crown,, Fennell is now responsible for creating Promising Young Woman an excellent revenge thriller that is determined to exact punishment on nearly all … Continue reading
PROTEKTOR
It’s World War 2 (again) and when the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia , Emil a local journalist agrees to read out German Propaganda on Prague Radio to protect Hana his Jewish wife. You think she’d be grateful for this but she’s rather a cold fish who shows little emotion to Emil, and has an affair and … Continue reading