Review of “MAY GOD SAVE US” – Spanish film with subtitles RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, THE VUE, LEICESTER SQUARE SEPTEMBER 2017 Starring dynamic Antonio de la Torre as Luis Verlade and Javier Alfaro as cool well dressed eccentric with a stutter Roberto Alano, one can only marvel at this gripping story which echoes certain other films about serial killers…
This Is Us – FILM REVIEW – RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL VUE LEICESTER SQUARE SEPTEMBER 2017 Jerry J White 111 is the director and one of the executive producers of This is Us. I met this young dynamic entrepreneur in the bar before the screening, who had just arrived from LA. Jerry recently changed his career…
Review of World Premier of “Ghostroads” – A Japanese Rock and Roll Ghost Story – The Vue Cinema – Raindance Film Festival 2017 We all – or most of us – love Rock and Roll Bands – let’s face it….so this variation on a theme is funny, quirky, slightly ridiculous and will raise a smile…
Review of Dark Blue Girl – Raindance Film Festival 2017 the Vue Leciester Square .Writer/Director from Germany Mascha Schilinski has come up with a sensitive portrayal of an unusual “ménage a trois” which fixates the audience from start to finish. Starring Artemis Chalkidou, Karsten Antonio Mielke and Helena Zenkel, father and mother of Luca split…
“I go back home, Jimmy Scott” Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child. Jimmy’s song haunts and enchants. Directed by Yoon Ha Chang, this sensitive interpretation of one man’s mission to give jazz and blues singer Jimmy Scott true appreciation before he passes on enchants the audience with renditions of his songs after German music…
If you want real life and not fantasy – this is the film for you! At the Raindance Film Festival, a film which has already been bought up by more than 10 countries, including the UK, China, USA, Australia and the Middle East, “Love is Thicker than Water” (104 minutes) was screened to a packed…
Sir Roger Moore, known for playing James Bond, has died aged 89. A Twitter post said “ With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated.” He died in Switzerland, after a short but brave battle with cancer. His private…
“In Memoriam” Montage PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm responsible for the tabulation of the Oscar ballots and the envelopes announcing the winners, release a statement after the shocking mistake resulted in La La Land wrongly being announced as best picture. “We sincerely apologise to “Moonlight, “La La Land”, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Oscar viewers for…
Kung Fu Yoga, Jackie Chan and Sonu Sood film with some elementary Kung Fu as Chinese archaeologist, Jack is in search of lost treasure of Magadha. His assistants and Indian gangs try to outsmart an Indian prince, Randall and his army to capture the gold. Jack enlists Indian archaeologist Ashmita (Disha Patani) for searching and…
Veteran English actor Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE, dies aged 77, on Wednesday at his home in Norfolk. He was an English actor and voice actor whose career spanned six decades. The Bafta-winning star, famous for his roles in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980) and chestburster inAlien (1979), had been treated for pancreatic cancer…