Somewhere between endearingly quirky and irritatingly pretentious writer director Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan is the latest in what could be termed the alternative rom-com genre, a filmmaking style typified by the works of Noah Baumbach. It’s also part of that growing cinematic sub-genre, the Greta Gerwig film, in which Gerwig plays the lovably ditzy but still capable and philosophical young
Read moreThe awkwardly titled Septembers of Shiraz, a cinema adaptation of the successful 2007 Dalia Sofer novel, has been pilloried by critics. Much of the invective is justified although this film isn’t quite the monstrous squawking turkey filmgoers might fear. Septembers of Shiraz places us amid the epochal events of Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. The focus of the
Read moreFrench drama The Measure of a Man depicts the existential hell of both unemployment and employment. The film portrays the grim life of retrenched middle-aged factory worker Thierry (Vincent Lindon) as he diligently but unsuccessfully searches for work, enduring constant knock-backs and worthless advice from his employment counsellor. With debts for his disabled son’s care mounting, he takes a job
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Read moreCheck out the Swift Impulse Featured Song for August 4th 2016 – Aaradhna Patel – Brown Girl, from her recently released album “Brown Girl” which has been out since July 2016. If you enjoy the song, it is available on iTunes here
Read moreThe restrained but powerful Turkish–French co-production, Mustang was nominated for Best Foreign Language film at this year’s Oscars and has won several European film awards and deservedly so as this is one of the year’s finest films. Cinemagoers will immediately see a resemblance between this film and Sophia Coppola’s flawed but intoxicating 1999 adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides novel, The Virgin
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