Not quite electrifying
Electricity is another grey, gritty, low-budget British film about a dysfunctional family from a Northern council estate (with a view of the sea). It distinguishes itself by taking the family out of ...
FILM REVIEWS
Follow the pilgrims in Manakamana
It used to be that pilgrims going up to the popular Hindu Temple of Manakamana in the Nepalese jungle had to walk for three days. Now, the pilgrims travel by cable car to leave a prayer, and offering ...
The touching love story of a school teacher and a drag queen
The Circle (December 12, 2014) Zurich-born Writer/Director Stefan Haupt’s low-budget, engrossing docu-drama is a double-biopic about the first gay couple to marry legally in Switzerland. Their story ...
An exposé of the tension between art versus commerce
Joyce Glasser reviews The Great Museum (December 12, 2014) The Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, or, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which opened in 1891, was commissioned by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Aust ...