Iconoclastic and fabulously talented designer and artist Alexander McQueen is the subject of the new documentary McQueen from Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui. McQueen’s real life rags-to-riches story, his shining star blazing across the fashion universe and acceptance as an international force appeared to have fulfilled his East End London boyhood dreams. He recreated fashion for a new age, blending street art, the… View Post
This quiet gem offers further proof that Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best younger actors working in Hollywood today. Don’t Worry – He Won’t Get Far on Foot puts him in yet another extreme character, and he reveals it, body and soul. John is a disarming alcoholic whose downtimes are painfully visceral and accelerating. When his drinking buddy pal Dexter (Jack Black) falls… View Post
The biopic Whitney directed by Kevin Macdonald with full co-operation from her family, friends and associates and offers shocking revelations of her early life, including sexual abuse by a female relative, a long-term lesbian relationship and the extent of her drug addiction but the overwhelming takeaway is sadness. It’s heartbreaking to think a woman with Houston’s boundless talent and bright personality died… View Post
Award-winning British documentary filmmaker Tim Wardle has produced stories on law, crime and courts for television outlets in the UK and the US. His latest project Three Identical Strangers begins in the upper New York State, and looks at three men, Robert “Bobby” Shafran, Edward “Eddy” Galland and David Kellman, from different cities who discovered at age nineteen that they were identical triplets. Their… View Post
Well, friends, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp – the first female superhero named film – AND Evangeline Lilly is Canadian – is here, but I have no review. I was AWOL when Disney showed the film to press, taking a well-deserved break up north. Can you blame me in this scorching weather? However, a wasp pestered me, and there were ants aplenty… View Post
The world of health & wellness has become very saturated with information – almost too saturated if you ask me. The result is that we’re constantly being bombarded with information from a variety of sources, and oftentimes health-related discoveries can be contradictory. One day coffee is good, the next it’s bad. One day saturated fat is the devil, the next… View Post