It’s Annie….but it isn’t.
When six-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis burst on the scene in the weird and rather wonderful Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), she was so charismatic, you could not take her eyes of her. She exuded inn ...
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The New Year at the Movies
If the disturbing and deplorable hacking of Sony’s computers is intended to cripple the film industry and limit freedom of expression, the quality and variety of films released this month, made by and ...
‘If you can take it, you can make it’ in Angelina Jolie’s direction of Unbroken
Joyce Glasser reviews Unbroken (2014) Angelina Jolie’s ambitious second feature, Unbroken is a worthy biopic about the Olympic gold-medal runner turned war hero Louis Zamperini, who died just before t ...
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 ...