Sometime in the 1970’s Mary Shepard decided to park her beaten up old Bedford van in one of the nicer leafy streets in London’s Camden Town area. The street with it’s expansive Georgian houses was home to several professional upper-middle class Brits that included a smattering of famous people such as the widow of the … Continue reading
Veteran Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine is one of those rare breed of actors that we would happily wait in line just to hear her read the Telephone Directory out loud, in fact there are parts in this rather tepid contrived comedy that we wished she had being doing just that. It wasn’t the fact that this … Continue reading
You could be forgiven for thinking from the opening scenes of this new comedy from Australian actor turned director Josh Lawson that you are about to watch a movie that is like a Wikipedia of sexual practices, or even some soft-core pornography. Thankfully it is neither of those although Mr. Lawson does want us to … Continue reading
Writer/director Jeff Baena ‘s new movie is very loosely based on a very tiny part of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century classic The Decameron using two of the many bawdy stories to make this amusing comedy of his. Using a talented cast of actors most of whom are usually found in TV series, a good part of The … Continue reading
This oddball hybrid of movie is part documentary and part fictional comedy that tries desperately hard to milk ever ounce of humor in an awkward parody of online dating. The central figure in the Lonely Italian is Domenico Nesci an Italian TV & Radio host who also once starred in two MTV Reality Shows “That’s Amore” … Continue reading