The sheer power of documentary is nowhere more apparent than in this excellent affectionate profile of the end of the remarkable career of Wendy Whelan on the eve of her retirement from the NY City Ballet after an unprecedented 30 years with the Company. For non-balletomanes and non-Americans whose education never included the opportunity to … Continue reading
Headfort the delightful rambling boarding school in the heart of the countryside 50 miles outside of Dublin, is the sort of educational establishment most of us would have given our right arms to spend our childhoods in. The cameras spend a year there for this affectionate portrait by Irish documentarian Nease Ni Chianain which for … Continue reading
Darcy (Holly Hunter) is a middle-aged Southern woman living a hand-to-mouth existence where money, love and rain all seem to be in short supply. She works as a Administrative Assistance in the local University and has been taking grad school classes at night in hope of bettering her chances. Despite the fact that the town’s local … Continue reading
This new feel-good chick-lit movie seems to be part of the continued journey of the darlings of indie-movies Duplass Brothers to making more mainstream comedies. The movie directed by the Oscar nominated Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound) from the brothers script, still has the usual cast of odd-ball slightly dysfunctional characters that we have come to expect from … Continue reading
This thoroughly entertaining documentary goes out of its way to reassure us all that cosmetic surgery really is the way to go especially if we want to hang on to our youth just a tad longer than nature cruelly intends we cannot. The film is by an expert on he topic as it is the … Continue reading