Honiara is the capital of the Solomon Islands and situated on its biggest island, Guadalcanal, site of fierce […]
The only zoo in Papua New Guinea and the most successful conservation project in the Indian-Pacific region.
I’m on the road again with a short Melanesian gallivant.
This movie was made by an Aussie man called Bill Bennett who did the Camino de Santiago in […]
This biographical documentary is one minute under three and a half hours long. I had already ordered an […]
Ripley is a masterpiece of noir vérité. Some have complained about the excruciatingly detailed and pedestrian pace at which Ripley’s crimes and their aftermath are depicted, but that is the whole point. We are made to witness all the trouble Ripley goes to and to endure the tensions and uncertainties he experiences. We are drawn into his cunning high-stakes game to the extent that we almost can’t help hoping he gets away with it!
‘This feature-length biographical documentary, made last year to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, charts his progress from child performer in the pre-screen days to becoming, by the age of thirty, the highest-paid writer in the world and a star, as they say, of stage and screen. ‘
What ads do you hate most? Elsewhere on this website I’ve written about great advertising such as the […]
Golda was completed and released by August 2023, thus predating the murderous raid by Hamas terrorists on October 7th of that year. If you are of the view that Israel has no right to exist, you might be unsympathetic on the Big Picture, but you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by this depiction of an old woman having to make terrible decisions in the worst crisis she and her country had ever faced.
“I don’t think of bodily fluids when I hear the word moist. I tend to think of either cake, which I prefer moist, or my potted ferns, which like to be kept in moist bedding.”