An indigenous Aboriginal girl group performing in some shanty town in the Australian outback are spotted by a washed-out Irish pianist down on his luck who perceives that the girls are talented and could be his ticket out of there. Not by singing their dreary country music at which they are addicted too, but by … Continue reading
This is yet again another story so bizarre that it just had to be true, and this dramatized movie tells of a very witty and courageous young man who just wanted to have sex once before he died. Mark O’Brien had polio as a kid and although he wasn’t paralyzed his muscles were so extensively damaged … Continue reading
Teenager Sutton Keely has an inexhaustible amount of confidence and good humor, and is the life and soul of the many parties that are the pivot of his very existence. He coasts along at school barely managing C- grades and makes his time in class bearable with sips from his hip flask that his is … 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
If we believed Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s wonderfully preposterous concept that if all the villages in the Middle East were run by women there would by no conflicts or war at all. In this delightful satirical tale she actually has us believe that in one such case, it is more than feasible, it’s actually possible. … Continue reading