-
Review: Harry Brown
17th November 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Michael Caine delivers a master class in the superb Harry Brown.
In 1971 Michael Caine starred in the cult British gangster flick ‘Get Carter’. In the film Caine plays Jack Carter a Londoner who travels to the North of England to try to discover the circumstances of his brother’s death. Carter’s mission takes him into the bleak, uncompromising and seedy underworld of Newcastle’s gangland. On discovering the suspicious circumstances of his... -
Film review: A Serious Man
11th November 2009 | 4 comments | 1 person likes this
The latest offering from the Coen Brothers is the mildly amusing A Serious Man.
The movie follows the trials and tribulations of Larry Gopnick (Michael Stuhlbarg) a physics teacher in the 1960s. Gopnick is trying desperately hard to make sense of a life that is rapidly testing not only his resolve but his faith. At home his wife wants to leave him for an smarmy acquaintance, his oddball high maintenance brother... -
Operation sideline Blair
11th November 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Paul Waugh, the Evening Standard’s specialist political speculator and part time David Milliband cheerleader has been at it again. Yep, Waugh has been peddling his unique brand of rumours while bigging up the merits of the boy wonder of the Cabinet.
Waugh is the soothsayer who last month declared that David Milliband had replaced Tony Blair in the running for the new EU foreign affairs job. Just over a week later...




