Looking back over my old and abandoned blog posts its safe to say that prior to 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers Assemble (…awful UK title) I was still somewhat of an MCU skeptic. My own fandom suffering years at the hands of studio missteps (Hulk, Blade: Trinity, Elektra, Fantastic Four, Ghost
Strange Heaven is an emotional and engaging piece of filmmaking looking at the family unit from the perspective of a 7 year old. What should be a family’s heaven in a new country with boundless possibilities turns into hell for the couple and a strange heaven for their child. Strange Heaven
By Last Caress. The Divide, the latest movie by British documentarian Katharine Round, tells the tale of economic disparity in modern day US and UK, where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. [caption id="attachment_26881" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Divide[/caption] The narrative within The Divide travels across the Atlantic to
By Last Caress. A Girl and Her Gun, a seventeen-minute short written by Bristolian Paul Holbrook and co-directed by Holbrook and Sam Dawe, is a stylistic marriage of British kitchen-sink urban drama to the Spaghetti Western, to which A Girl and Her Gun is also a love letter. An un-named twelve year-old
Monet to Matisse (2016) When I arrived in Paris as a 19 year old, one of the first things I did was go and visit Claude Monet’s house and garden situated at Giverny, 45 miles west of Paris. It was a hot day in July and despite the crowds it was
