Catherine Deneuve and if you don’t believe it go see A Conte De Noel, which won’t be like too many Holly, Bolly or other Wood movies you have seen about Christmas. Parts of it could have reminded of Scorsese in Mean Streets but parts of it are just well you will just have to see. [...]
Angels and Demons
Ayalet Zurer plays a scientist on the case of this presequel or something like that thriller from the Vatican featuring also as it happens Nikolaj Lie Kaas as a very very bad man, although apparently only a representative of some people much badder. Better than Da Vinci code the movie, no I never read the [...]
Star Trek
Zoey Saldana plays Nyota Ahura. The young James Kirk much prefers her to some green girl who looks like Debra Messing from Will and Grace but does Spock get the girl, and do they remain good friends and team mates in the service of the Star Fleet? I loved this show when I was kid [...]
La Cenerentola
Elīna Garanča in Rossini’s La Cenerentola. Conductor, Maurizio Benini looking like a dead ringer for Salman Rushdie did not detract in any way from this end of season HD broadcast from the Met. I have sat through so many of these where it was myself and a dozen other saddoes. Now they are playing to [...]
Cheri
Michlle Pfeiffer in action with Rupert Friend who played Albert in Young Victoria. Based on a couple of books by Colette. Period piece, costume drama in other words exploring a courtesan’s last shot at love in a world that did not allow women much independence.
Is anybody there?
Anne-Marie Duff although again not as she appears in this story starring Michael Caine about an old man preparing for the end. Has some hilarious moments but you have to be in the mood, so you have been forewarned.
Good
Jodie Whittaker although not quite as she appears in this story written by CP Taylor, about an academic who gets swept in to the National Socialistic movement, losing in the process the man who functioned as his conscience and who was probably his best friend. However he gets a nice shiny uniform and goes off [...]
