Tag: film
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Bill Evans Time Remembered by Bruce Spiegel – documentary
Film about a skilled composer who was an integral figure in one of the greatest LPs ever made Website Bill Evans Time Remembered official site In the 1940s and ’50s, the jazz world was enthralled by the driving sound of hard bop. However, the relationship between a New Jersey pianist and Miles Davis would help […]
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Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary – John Scheinfeld
Movie trailer about the legendary jazz saxophonist that includes interviews with collaborators and fans, alongside rare footage Website Chasing Trane official site John William Coltrane is arguably the best saxophonist that ever graced this earth. It’s nigh on impossible to find peers, living or dead, who match his virtuosity. He’s even been canonise by the […]
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Influencers: How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious – documentary
A film exploring how trends and tastes permeate from the Big Apple Websites Influencers film R+I Creative Ostensibly this short documentary from Paris-based indie filmmakers R+I Creative intends to find out “what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious… in music, fashion and entertainment”. Set in the Big Apple, […]
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Rollover movie review
Did the panned ’80s flick foresee the financial meltdown? Economists have, with some justification, been criticised for not foreseeing the current economic crisis. Hollywood, it seems, may have done a better job. Flawed financial thriller Rollover culminates in the collapse of world currencies as the value of stock markets plummets. In 1981 when it was […]
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Sicko movie review
There’s much to commend and much to be exasperated by in this documentary. It eloquently states that the USA’s (over)reliance on the insurance industry leaves the most vulnerable shortchanged in the healthcare stakes. And then it says it again. And again. Once that point has been rammed home, Moore traipses over to Canada, England and […]
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Black Gold movie review
Although this documentary is about coffee, it doesn’t give you tips on brewing the perfect cuppa. No, it tries to clarify and add meaning to those well-intentioned but largely opaque phrases like “trade not aid”. The film focuses on Tadesse Meskela, the manager of a farmers’ co-op in Ethiopia, who tirelessly brokers deals with coffee […]
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The Namesake movie review
The immigrant story often goes something like this: in a foreign land, they work their (in this case Bengali) balls off so their kids won’t endure the hardships they’ve encountered. Then, if said offspring are raised particularly well, they’ll shun their parents and dive — hook, line and sinker — into the culture of the […]
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The Pursuit Of Happyness movie review
This rag-to-riches tale (vaguely “inspired by a true story”) features an unexpectedly sensitive (and Oscar-nominated) turn by Will Smith who plays a struggling salesman of bone-density scanners, a near-defunct device that no right-thinking medic wants. That, unfortunately, is only the start of his woes after his wife (Thandie Newton) leaves him with mounting debts and […]
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This Is England movie review
Shane Meadows’ semi-autobiographical effort explains how the sharp clothing of the ska-loving skin ‘ead could possibly mutate into the conspicuous uniform of the far right. Against the backdrop of the Falkland’s War and Thatcher’s divided Britain, this Eighties-set drama revolves around 12-year-old Shaun, a cheeky misfit who’s taken into the bosom of a gang. For […]