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 ...
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‘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 ...
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 ...