Rock The Kasbah
Veteran funny man Bill Murray is so good at playing miserable old curmudgeons who turn out to be really warm human beings before the final credits roll, that he’s making quite a career out of it these days. Following on the heels of last years ‘St Vincent’, Murray now swaps Brooklyn for Afghanistan but once again … Continue reading
ROMANTIC’S ANONYMOUS
One of the things I really liked about this quirky Gallic love story was that it was not about a flawlessly perfect beautiful young couple but rather about a painfully shy somewhat ordinary pair in their early/mid forties. It’s the sweet (literally) tale of Angelique a talented chocolatier who is so introvert that any small … Continue reading
ROMEOS
There are all sorts of ‘Romeos’ in this very innovative and somewhat daring tale about gender identity that is about how very tough it can be just being one’s self. The setting is a couple of dormitories in Koln, Germany where young adults are based to do a year of social studies. The film opens … Continue reading
Room
A twenty-seven year old woman who was kidnapped, has been held hostage trapped in a lock-tight and sound-proofed 11′ x 11′ garden shed for the past seven years. However two years into her capture after being continually raped by her kidnapper, she gave birth to a son called Jack. The movie actually starts five years … Continue reading
Rosewater
This rather tense drama opens with Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari been awoken by Investigators in his mother’s house in Tehran and subsequently hauled off to jail. Then in a flashback, we see Bahari in London 11 days previously with his heavily pregnant English wife discussing his assignment from Newsweek Magazine to cover the impending Presidential Elections in … Continue reading