[photopress:Bafana.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Too black and white
Bille August (Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (1997), Les Miserables (1998)) heads up this multi-European country co-production, but his take on the tale of the relationship between a white South African prison guard and Nelson Mandela is flawed from the outset.
Approaching the immensely marketable material (James Gregory’s autobiography, detailing how his life [...]
[photopress:history_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] All his own work?
Carl Fogaty: Any last words before I blow your brains out, you miserable prick?
Tom Stall: I should have killed you back in Philly.
Carl Fogaty: Yeah Joey, you should have.
It’s all, ahem, ‘Viggo’ for the mo – but one can but hope that a discussion of what is perhaps the best [...]
[photopress:23207135.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Many of you will know that I am an unashamed Batman fan, and always have been. I was quite happy – eager, even, that my eldest son (who’s 10) should come to see it with me. For me, it’s the same thing as the Dads who drag their children of two years or so [...]