Tag: Theodore Melfi

Film review: HIDDEN FIGURES, from ‘Built For Speed’

Intertwining a civil rights story with the early 1960’s space race, Hidden Figures might at first glance seem like a hybrid of The Help and Apollo 13 and while it’s at times formulaic and set within a sunny 1960s milieu worthy of Ron Howard, it contains an important and uplifting story. Based on actual events, Hidden Figures traces the careers of

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Film review: ST. VINCENT, from Built For Speed

St Vincent is a charming if flawed feel-good comedy drama that provides another showcase for Bill Murray’s amusing brand of misanthropy. Murray plays Vincent a familiar figure in American cinema, the rude, miserable, middle-aged grump neighbour who disdains anyone interfering with his self-contained, self-serving world.  When his new neighbour, kindly single mum Maggie (Melissa McCarthy) is forced to work late,

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