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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Annette Bening stars in an intense profile of bereavement
Joyce Glasser reviews The Face of Love (December 12, 2014) If there is a memorable, profound film lying beneath Arie Posin’s interesting and well-acted psychological drama, The Face of Love, it might ...