Gina Mckee in the loop. I didn’t want to see this film based on its politics but thought I would give it a shot anyway. As funny as some of the better British television can be with the inclusion of Britain’s favourite american (until Obama), James Gandolfini. Do they need links? Hysterical portrayals of political [...]
Shifty
Kate Groombridge who says very little as the drug addicted girlfriend of a dealer in this low budget production about a day in the life of another dealer (Shifty) played by Riz Ahmed. I actually enjoyed the part of Shifty’s older brother played by Nitin Ganatra. At one point this film seemed in danger of [...]
State of Play
Viola Davis appears as a coroner in this story originally written for BBC by Paul Abbot. The interplay between old and new media in what Jeff Pulver is calling Now Media is part of what makes this film work. Heavily focused on the interplay between print and blog journalism both being fed by 24 hr [...]
The boat that rocked
Philip Seymour Hoffman along with a whole cast of actors including Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, could have made this movie as great as its soundtrack. As it is it stands as a bit of a farce, telling the story from a very narrow perspective, leaving out references other than through music to any of the [...]
Crank High Voltage
Actress Ling Bai who here sums up the nature of this story, the plot of which continues on from Crank, where Chev Chelios played by British actor Jason Statham conducts a manic search across metropolitan Los Angeles to literally recover his heart. Not as funny or as tight as the preceeding story, but still amusing [...]
Blekingegadebanden (Blekingegate gang)
Feature film length documentary interview with one of the members of the Blekingegate gang who could be described as a Danish version of the Baader Meinhof. The story is interspersed with interviews with police detectives involved with the case alongside television, radio and police tape footage from the time. The gang formed by young men from Communist party supporting [...]
Kærestesorger (Aching Hearts)
Sofie Lind Lauridsen gets handed the black book that provides a subtext for this story of kids from the right side of town getting through their early college years. Takes place in the early sixties before a lot of the changes that hit society take place this could be the script for the soc’s of [...]
