“We’re all going on a summer holiday”. Much as this old song might tempt us to think that this is what we want, award-winning director Luis De Filippis’s first feature-length film reminds us that those family holidays aren’t always filled with happiness and harmony. Twenty-something trans daughter Ren (superbly played by newcomer Carmen Madonia) and…
Three years with very little travelling. What better way to end this hiatus than to take a trip to the Amazon. Our guide will be non-binary Emerson, or his alter-ego Uyra, an environmentalist and performance artist. Uyra: The Rising Forest is his gorgeous documentary beckoning us to consider some important questions for our times. How have we abused the great Amazon forest in our…
Six Grammys. Two Emmys. 16 Billboard Music awards. 28 Guinness World records ? and a string of other awards that would fill pages. When you are considered the greatest voice of your generation, you deserve a big movie. This is a big movie. Whitney Houston?s short, tragic, yet magical life is brought to reverential remembrance by…
Unless you?have?been on another planet for the last five years, you know the story of Harvey Weinstein,?his?trial for rape and sexual assault, and his subsequent conviction. These allegations and this trial helped to fuel the #MeToo movement.?Based on the Pulitzer prize-winning book of the same name,?She Said?has now made it to the big screen.??It is…
?We?re all going on a summer holiday?. Much as this old song might tempt us to think that this is what we want, award winning director Luis De Filippis?s first feature length film reminds us that those family holidays aren?t always filled with happiness and harmony. Twenty-something trans daughter Ren (superbly played by newcomer Carmen Madonia)…
Thunder Road Pictures was probably hoping to score a touchdown with National Champions. Although baseball is officially America?s national sport, football is its favourite. This movie should be a winner. It is based on an Adam Mervis play by the same name and directed by Ric Roman Waugh. It has a strong cast of seasoned actors, an intriguing story line, and a built in…
When I heard that a new West Side Story was due to premiere, I was sceptical. Did I really want to see a remake of one of my favourite movies? When I heard that Steven Spielberg was directing, and that he had wanted to make this movie for over 30 years, I was intrigued. When 91 year old Stephen Sondheim died in late November, seeing…
A24 Productions has hit it out of the ballpark again. Founded in 2012, it has already brought us so many treasures to be grateful for. C?mon C?mon is no exception. Shot in beautiful black and white, it has the feel of a documentary ? of lives of people that you didn?t know you needed to know about. But you?ll be glad you…
What do you do when your main character leaves the studio? Pick a door. Any door. In the long blue corridor there are many of them. Which one will the hero walk through? Or is it the hero? Maybe it is the director? Rajat Kapoor?s new (crowdfunded!) absurdist comedy takes us through the door and onto the set of his…
We feel that we know him. We?ve known him for five hundred years.??The artist who is probably the most famous painter in the world. Mona Lisa. The Last Supper.??Annunciation. The Vitruvian Man.??The artist: Leonardo Da Vinci.??He was the polymath of the 15th?Century.??A true genius.??Now he is a bingeable TV series. Entitled Leonardo, Sony Pictures and…
