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Higher Ground

Directed by Vera Farmiga
Produced by Claude Dal Farra, Renn Hawkey, Carly Hugo, Matt Parker & Jon Rubinstein
Written by Tim Metcalfe & Carolyn S. Briggs, based on her memoir This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
USA. 109 min. Rated R
With Vera Farmiga, McKenzie Turner, John Hawkes, Donna Murphy, Bill Irwin, […]

By |September 19th, 2011|American, Drama|0 Comments

The Weird World of Blowfly

Written & Directed & Produced by Jonathan Furmanski
Released by Variance Films
USA. 89 min. Not rated

The Weird World of Blowfly is the earthy, living history of the roots of rap through the ribald and bemused perspective of a septuagenarian veteran of the music business. With over two dozen raunchy, groundbreaking albums since the late 1960s under […]

By |September 16th, 2011|Documentary, Music|0 Comments

The Debt

Directed by John Madden
Produced by Matthew Vaughn, Kris Thykier, Eduardo Rossoff & Eitan Evan
Written by Vaughn & Jane Goldman & Peter Straughan, based on the film Ha-Hov
Released by Focus Features
USA. 113 min. Rated R
With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Sam Worthington & Jesper Christensen

Unusually female-centric, The Debt is a revenge thriller with a twist of […]

By |September 10th, 2011|Drama, Recommended|0 Comments

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie

Edited & Directed by Craig Teper
Produced by Jackie Gilbert Bauer and Michael Gordon
Released by Phase 4 Films
USA. 94 min. Rated PG

 

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie combines the first history of the evanescent art of hairstyling (as both fashion and a business) with the biography of the 20th century’s leading practitioner. There’s a lot […]

By |February 11th, 2011|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Featured, Pop Culture|0 Comments