By Gordon Foote. Changez Khan is a financial analyst. He works on Wall Street, having been handpicked from Princeton, by Underwood-Samson for “one of the most sought after jobs in the entire world”. He earns in excess of $100,000 a year, has a flat in Manhattan, and a beautiful girlfriend. Then 9/11 happens. Changez
Weaving my way through the twilight streets of London’s Soho, I search for the Soho Screening Rooms. Inside I meet other wary and weary travelers, all collected together to look back into cinema’s gothic past. All sitting comfortably, the film rolls. Silhouettes stalk across the screen foreshadowing the spectral scenes
By Gordon Foote. I remember a simpler time, when the internet was the refuge of nerds, and we (for I count myself amongst their number) used this marvel of human ingenuity mostly for illegally downloading music, looking at naked ladies, and playing text based adventure games. These days however, for better
High-jumps and Hi-jinks at the 1936 Olympic games. In 1936 Gretel Bergmann was Germany's most successful female high-jumper, frustratingly for the Nazi's she was also Jewish. Understandably Bergmann did not feel like representing her country. What with it's penchant of hatred toward her own people. Understandably the Nazi's didn't really want
Kristin Scott Thomas doesn't star in a comedy that's not actually a comedy. Professor of Chinese business practices Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri) finds himself in a bind. He has promised his wife Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas) that he will get a visa application sorted for one of her relatives. This means meeting
