The idea of the fallen angel, femme fatale and jilted lover interests us all and in a way Emily Blunt playing Rachel in the film version of Paula Hawkins’ Girl on a Train is all three rolled into one. Her “sober” manner, (actually drunk a lot of the time), darkly sinister and obsessed attitude to…
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (88), of Thailand, died on Thursday 13th October, 2016, at the Siriraj Hospital, where he had been treated for various health problem for most of the past decade. The US born monarch’s reign spanned 70 years, became much more than Thailand’s constitutional head, and used his influence to unify the nation and…
An interview with auteur and film director Bauddhayan Mukherji Bauddhayan ‘Buddy’ Mukherji is first and foremost a Director (independent film) who also has a full time job doing the same thing – but for TV ads – he gets given the script and makes the commercial. He has made more than 350 ads from agencies…
Tesco, One of the biggest Britain’ s supermarkets stopped restocking Unilever products in a row over price, amid Brexit price row. Tesco has dug its heel in a standoff with Unilever, which owns brands like PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Persil and Marmite after the company demanded price rises of 10 per…
Virtual Reality or VR (not video recording!) is a growing genre in the world of film. I was fortunate enough to attend an inaugural session on Sunday 2 October the closing day of the Raindance 24th film festival at The Hospital Club Covent Garden. There were 14 films playing. This event was very avant garde…
Bauddhayan Mukherji and his wife attended the showing of this film, having come from a festival in Zurich, Europe the day before. The Violin Player was scripted and directed by Mukherji and is independent film at its best. I defy anyone to predict what happens in the second and third acts of the film…
Train Drivers Diary – Raindance offers up a true tragic-comic gem. Hailing from Serbo Croat filmmakers this film was selected as Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards and the acting is something very special as well as the choice of story. Train drivers the world over during their professional careers have to…
Award winning and bestselling author, Simon Garfield take a tour across time in this age of atomically precise devices and look at some of the ways in which time is represented, and meets with makers and advertsiers of Swiss watches and Roger Bannister the first runner of a sub-four-minute mile. He also looks at management…
A commuter train crashed into a railway station in the US state of New Jersey and went through ticket barriers and into the reception area of Hoboken station, killing a woman bystander and injuring 108 people. Fabiola Bittar de Kroon 34 was struck by debris while standing on the platform and lost her life. There…