Footie ‘funanza’! A tour-de-force of football movie magic – over the course of 89 minutes of screen time, there are many hilarious scenes that England fans can truly relate to. Mike Bassett is the manager of Norwich City and, having won a minor cup, is catapulted into the top job, because no-one else wants it!
Love and laughter in hell A heart-rending tale from the Italian comedian, actor and director Roberto Benigni, the story follows a father and son torn from their wife and mother and incarcerated at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The main protagonist, Guido (Benigni) soon turns the camp experience into an elaborate game so that the horrors are ...
Hope springs eternal? Ah! I watched Jean de Florette (1986) by Claude Berri a couple of weeks ago, and it reaffirmed my love of French cinema, with its beautiful cinematography, wonderful and realistic acting as well as its unforgiving depiction of the harsh realities of life in rural France. I tried reading the book by ...
