French 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
Read moreRichard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused was one of the 90’s best movies. Using the final day of high school in the American bicentennial year of 1976 as a platform for exploring 70’s popular culture, politics, teen rituals and the looming threat of adult responsibility, Dazed and Confused was a funny and engrossing American Graffiti for Gen-Xers. The film
Read moreGlenn Cardier is one of Australia’s greatest singer/songwriters emerging in the 1970s with three excellent albums. Then Glenn Cardier hit the #1 spot on the B side (using a pseudonym) of one of Australia’s largest selling singles of all time, that of “C’mon Aussie C’mon“. After which Glenn took an approximate 20 year hiatus from the music industry to come
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