Detailing the personal and professional struggles of Hengdian World Studio's movie extras; I Am Somebody focus on aspiring migrant actor Peng (Wan Guopeng) as he pursues his dream, armed with only hard work and a yearning to learn. As he attempts to learn his new profession we follow him in
It’s A Wonderful List.. Some good friends recently handed me a bundle of DVDs they had inherited from a loved one who sadly passed away. I feel it's my duty over the coming months to honour the gentleman's impeccable taste in motion pictures by watching, reviewing and donating them to a
Chasing The Muse. When a film begins with a quote by Agnes Varda (bless her), you can sense it’s doomed. Jean-François Davy does not disappoint. His goal is to create a video diary of the women he meets, for purely artistic reasons of course. If you can bear to listen to
The Danish Girl attempts to tell the story of Danish artist Einar Wegener who becomes Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) the first individual to undergo transgender surgery in the 1920s. However, in the same way Einar Wegener painted beautiful landscapes this film by Tom Hooper sets out the premise in a
In The Heart Of The Sea is the story of the sinking of the Essex but it is so much more than that. As Brendan Gleeson says at the start it is the story of two men and the whale - the metaphor of their struggle. It reputedly inspired Herman
