Facebook – friend or foe?
Are you on facebook or any other social media? I joined a few years ago to keep in touch with my children who lived some distance from me. It enabled me to see photographs of them and to be able to ...
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A hard-drinking cop thriller in The Calling
Given our appetite for the genre, it isn’t surprising that Jason Stone’s film The Calling is yet another macabre police procedural, featuring yet another single, hard-drinking cop and based on yet ano ...
A sluggish drama of the scintillating story of Effie Gray
Effie Gray (October 10, 2014) Cert. 12A, 108 mins. Richard MacCormac’s architecturally striking, anti-Victorian, oval-shaped Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, home of the Ruskin collection, is o ...
The last major British film of the 1930’s before war broke out and one of the best
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE STARS LOOK DOWN (Renown) is one of the major British films of the late 1930’s, much admired for its gritty depiction of mine, miners and flooding disaster. I ...