The true and extraordinary story of dancer Ashfin Ghaffarian and his audacious escape from Iran is the tale being told in this curiously uninvolving biopic, which comes from director Richard Raymond and writer Jon Croker. Set […]
There is a surprising wealth of fiction about the dispossessed dead returning to help the living through the grieving process, and supernatural love story Journey to the Shore is a welcome addition. The film, from […]
Romantic comedies need two things to work, and alas We’ll Never Have Paris is never funny or charming enough to feel completely successful. The USP of the movie is that it is based on the […]
It’s an obvious but little made point that to a certain degree we are subject to propaganda about North Korea. Because we know so little about the curious communist dictatorship, which keeps itself deliberately separate from […]
Janis: Little Girl Blue is an intimate documentary about the tragically short life of the titular singer Janis Joplin. For anyone coming to the work of Joplin cold the movie is a good introduction to her […]