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Movie review: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote *** (***½ if you’re a Gilliamite)

Dir. Terry Gilliam, Spain/Belgium/France/Portugal/UK, 2018, 132 mins

Cast: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Joana Ribiero

Perhaps one of the most infamously tortured films of recent times, the release of this sees director Terry Gilliam’s Orson Welles-type odyssey finally making it to the big screen after nearly 30 years.

It’s hard to…

Movie review: The Farewell

THE FAREWELL

Dir: Lulu Wang

USA, 2019

Dur. 99 mins

Cast: Awkwafina, Shuzhen Zhou, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Chen Han, Aoi Mizuhara

Release Date: September 20

  Based on the real experiences of writer/director Wang, the twist in The Farewell is revealed immediately when Billi (Awkwafina) learns that her beloved grandmother “Nai Nai” (Shuzhen Zhou) has received a fatal cancer diagnosis.

  But, as is…

Movie Review: Moonlight #oscars2017

Forgetting the hoo-hah of the “envelopegate” fiasco at the Oscars, the fact remains that against the odds (especially since La La Land had already won six Oscars and seemed set to get the big one too), this low-budget film about the sexual identity and struggles of a young black man won Best Picture. That’s historic – and especially in today’s divided America. Add in the fact that Mahershala Ali…

Friar’s Bush – Belfast’s Hidden Cemetery

Friar’s Bush – Belfast’s Hidden Cemetery by James Bartlett From 1999-2004 I lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A few blocks from my house was this tiny graveyard in the shadow of the Ulster Museum and the College buildings on either side.   Intrigued, I finally got up the courage to knock on the door of the arched gatehouse – someone lived there; I could see a ginger cat on the windowsill…

Movie review: The Gallows

It’s High School drama season, and sports jock Reese (Reese Mishler) is stumbling badly through his lines opposite mini-diva Pfeifer (Pfeifer Brown) as they rehearse “The Gallows,” a play that became infamous 20 years ago when the stand-in actor for the role Reese is now playing was accidentally hung when the prop gallows malfunctioned. Filming Reese’s humiliation – and all the backstage hijinks…

  SPY Dir. Paul Feig USA, 2015 Dur. 120 mins Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Miranda Hart, Rose Byrne, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Allison Janney, Bobby Cannavale Release Date: June 5 When super-suave agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law) is killed by the fabulously-quiffed Raina Boyanov (Rose Byrne), his CIA desk jockey handler Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is devastated. Worse than that, now there’s a nuclear…