A dark poetic comedy
In Writer/Director John Michael McDonagh’s follow-up to his impressive directorial debut, the dark comedy, the Guard, he teams up again with actor Brendan Gleeson for a much darker ‘comedy,’ also set ...
FILM REVIEWS
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach
Joyce Glasser reviews The Lunchbox (April 11, 2014) With India’s huge studio factories churning out Bollywood Musicals for international audiences, it’s not often that we get low-budget dramas in from ...
Blazing performance in Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the Orange Prize winning novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is the directorial debut of the Nigerian/British novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele-Thomas. Biyi Bandele w ...
Another fantasy series with Divergent
In the beginning there was Harry Potter, a coming-of-age fantasy about finding one’s identity along a path filled with angels and demons. Then came the atmospheric melodrama Twilight, with a strong f ...