“Demanding is over-rated” said a wise woman, who I also happen to be married to. Woody Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight, is a light and fluffy piece of movie confection set on the photogenic Cote d’Azur that delights the eye but hardly taxes the brain. Set in the 1920’s, Colin Firth plays Charlie … Read more
Cameron Diaz is someone that must be so, SO depressing for many middle-aged women. Bursting onto the screen like a shimmering vision of hotness in “The Mask” when only 21 she then appeared as a highly believable high-school student 4 years later in “There’s Something about Mary”. Now SIXTEEN years after that in “Sex Tape” … Read more
“Before I Go To Sleep” is an effective psychological thriller. Nicole Kidman plays Christine Lucas, someone who if she saw “50 First Dates” wouldn’t remember it the morning afterwards! She wakes as a forty-something ‘housewife’ in her suburban home every morning with Ben (Colin Firth) in bed next to her. However, she can remember little … Read more
The Hundred-Foot Journey is based on the novel by Richard C. Morais. It tells the story of the combative relationship between an Indian family, headed by ‘Papa’ (Om Puri), who opens a traditional Indian restaurant called “La Maison Mumbai” in a rural French village directly opposite the Michelin 1-star restaurant run by the fanatically focused … Read more
Probably few things have divided the British people more in the last forty years than Margaret Thatcher’s time as Conservative leader. The pivot point for that hatred/worship was the protracted dispute with the National Union of Mineworkers in 1984/85. Arthur Scargill led the miners in a fight to the death against pit closures and their … Read more