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Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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In Men in Love, action takes place over roughly, three years upto 1990, Welsh has to think himself into an era before smartphones and the internet. Late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin- a time for hope, for love, for raving. Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy … Continue reading Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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Trapped inside an impermeable windowless concrete room

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In the 33rd Raindance Film Festival, The Lonely Musketeer won the Best U.K. cinematography, Bruce Jackson, shot in monochrome in one claustrophobic main location, a low-budget film, is a taut, stripped-back mystery thriller. The film also won the Best Performance in a UK Feature, Edward Hogg, for his role in unique closed room Thriller, The Lonely Musketeer. There is only one actor on screen for the most part of Nicolai Schumann’smesmerising debut feature, The Lonely Musketeer. It is an entirelyfictitious story which I would term essentially as “Film Noir”. Themusical score accompanying the drama is original. It is a dark, unpleasant,though gripping … Continue reading Trapped inside an impermeable windowless concrete room

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The City that never sleeps

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Manhattan Down is a pulse-pounding contemporary thriller which dares to imagine the unimaginable, a leaderless world being held to ransom by forces unknown for reasons unknown. The questions it asks are terrifying- and so are some of the answers. Manhattan the city that never sleeps just said goodnight. On September 10th,  one day before the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to admit that the climate crisis has reached boiling point and the world’s time is running out. … Continue reading The City that never sleeps

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The Globe Theatre playing Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

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Diving into theatrical history in the 21st century – Shakespearesglobe.com currently playing Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, soon to be performed Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare). It is a very popular venue, and don’t miss the details about the new Sam Wanamaker theatre next door and open all year round! The Globe Theatre at 21 Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, South London SE1 was in modern times the brain child of Sam Wanamaker who came to the UK in 1949, and who died in 1993. Building started in 1970 and finished in 1997 – they relied heavily on donations to complete the project and the … Continue reading The Globe Theatre playing Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

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A penguin rescued from oil pollution

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THE PENGUIN LESSONS cert 12 in UK cinemas now Adapted from a novel by Jeff Pope about Tom Michell’s post as a teacher in anupmarket boarding school in Argentina, in 1976, Steve Coogan plays the part ofthe teacher and adopter of a penguin to enchanting effect.Director of this film – Peter Cattaneo is already acclaimed for several verypopular movies including The Full Monty and Military Wives.Acclaimed actor Jonathan Pryce plays the Headmaster of the school where abomb goes off just as the new teacher is arriving. Argentina is an unstableplace to live in the times documented with politically motivated wars … Continue reading A penguin rescued from oil pollution

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Addictive focus on the wrong things for too long

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Journalist Chris Hayes explains why attention and experience which are essential components of being human are under threat. The speed, scale and scope of technological innovation in that past two or three decades mean that the quality of our daily life is being altered – and not for the better, as we are all caught up in it. The utopian early days of internet has given way to fear and loathing, and yet we cannot tear ourselves away from our screens. Even people who work in Silicon Valley insist that their children real actual books and play board games with … Continue reading Addictive focus on the wrong things for too long

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Finding new love

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Marine and Michael, two protagonist find themselves together on a 190-mile  coast-to-coast walking trail across northern England, after being brought together through a mutual friend. A love story develops between the two divorcees as they battle the great British weather to find their way home, finding new love and second chances along the way, exploring the relationships in a way that reflects real life and the search for human connection.  At first Marine is interested in another group member, Conrad, but as he soon drops out along with the others, leaving Marine and Michael to continue to walk together, starting from … Continue reading Finding new love

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Conclave

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CONCLAVE – ADAPTATION OF A ROBERT HARRIS NOVEL (2016) BASED SOLELY IN THE VATICAN, ROME. Award winning actor Ralph Fiennes takes on the lead in this interesting saga about voting in a new Pope in Rome’s Vatican where there is a conclave of eminent Catholic clergy from around the world. Playing Cardinal Lawrence, he is one of the people who could be voted in to be the next Pope. He plays an Englishman which is a different nationality to the one itemised in the original book.In a fictional story, 72 hours are featured in this film directed by Academy Award … Continue reading Conclave

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Thriller

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Spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of West’s spy war with the Soviets Strewn across Europe, he has eyes on a more peaceful life. With his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy, with some quality time with is wandering wife Anne. But when Hungarian assassin, sent to London to dispatch Laszlo Banati an émigré Magyar agent, has a sudden change of heart and switches sides, Simley is back called back to investigate to find … Continue reading Thriller

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Boarding school challenges

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Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, bring us a “Our Evenings”. Gay life in England across the decades, from 1960s to the pandemic captured with glowing intensity through an actor’s memories. A dark luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from on the finest writers of our age. Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of … Continue reading Boarding school challenges