The Railway Man – heroism, tension, war, peace and a powerful love story
After the fall of Singapore in 1942, some 200,000 allied troops, including 25,000 UK soldiers, were forced into slavery by the Japanese. ...
FILM REVIEWS
Inside Llewyn Davis is a masterpiece by the Coen Brothers
Joyce Glasser reviews Inside Llewyn Davis (January 24, 2014) The Coen Brothers’ new film, Inside Llewyn Davis is to the New York City folk music scene of 1961 what their film Barton Fink was to the Ca ...
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, starring Harrison Ford and Kenneth Branagh
Joyce Glasser reviews Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (January 24, 2014) Cert. 12, 105 min. The handsome, personable, all-American Chris Pine, who rose to fame as Captain Kirk in the 2009 film reboot of Sta ...
Teenage – documenting of the evolution of the teenager
Based on a book by the punk author Jon Savage, Teenage is an often fascinating but equally frustrating historic collage showing the evolution of the teenager as a movement and period in one’s life. Fi ...