Occasion: Friday Film with Friends (as part of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival) Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: Set in hyper-styled 1950s Normandy, France, Populaire‘s heroine Rose (François) has two choices in life: get married or become a secretary. The film is a simplistic and perhaps naive treatment of a woman’s lot in […]
Occasion: A night at the Astor Theatre Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: Film technique, technology and trends might have changed – but the excitement which Wings aroused in its audiences in 1927 remains until this day. Wings is a story about friendship, love and flying in World War I. Billed at the time as a Clara Bow film, the narrative […]
Occasion: DVD night Anticipation: Medium Overall rating: Sci-fi stoner-surf comedy adventure Dark Star takes place on the ship of the same name, that four bored and bearded crew members call home. Gone a bit loopy from the tedium of 20 years of space travel, they perform mundane and repetitive tasks in cramped conditions, frequently reacting to comical […]
Occasion: Girls’ night out Anticipation: Medium Overall rating: Starring a clutch of director Joss Whedon’s favourites, Much Ado About Nothing is a faithful, yet modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s play by the same name. Fans will delight in Beatrice and Benedict’s acidic diatribes, Dogberry’s dopey incompetence and Don John’s sleazy schemes. Luxuriously shot in […]
Occasion: Date night Anticipation: High Overall rating: The dead walk the earth in Warm Bodies, the story of a zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult) who falls in love with a young woman, Julie (Teresa Palmer). R shuffles through undeath with his best friend M (Rob Corddry), communicating with grunts and moans and the occasional word (“hungry”). […]
