Finding peace in Salvo
Salvo is a stylishly told film about redemption in which an assassin for the Sicilian mafia (Saleh Bakri) spares the life of his victim’s blind sister, Rita (Sara Serraiocco). The hitman pays the pri ...
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A cinematic rarity in We Are What We Are
Here is a cinema rarity: an American remake that surpasses the foreign language original. In my review of Mexican Director’s Jorge Michel Grau’s Somos Lo Que Hay (We are What We Are) I wrote that the ...
Moral separation in The Book Thief
Adapted by Michael Petroni (The Rite, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Trader) from Markus Zusak’s Best Selling novel of the same name, The Book Thief is an English language tear-jerker s ...
18 year old Shelagh Delaney had big success in 1958
Robert Tanitch reviews A Taste of Honey at National Theatre/Lyttelton 18-year-old Shelagh Delaney saw Terence Rattigan’s Variation on a Theme in Manchester, when it was on its pre-London tour, and tho ...