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…
Labour Party’s conference in Liverpool, Jeremy Corbyn said it could build support by focusing on the “needs and aspirations of middle and lower income voters, of ordinary families, if we demonstrate we’ve got a viable alternative to the government;’s failed economic policies, I’m convinced we can build the electroral support that can beat the Tories”.…
Yesterday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton Following yesterday’s debate between Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton, Mr Trump told a crowd of 75,000 at a rally, that he was holding back, stating, “I didn’t want to do anything to embarrass her” regarding Mrs Clinton. Looking at some of the issues raised, Trump said in 2012…
A 225 seat restaurant is planned as a replacement to Harrods fine wines department after cognacs like the £24,995 Louis X111 stopped selling in a “glass ceiling” case. In the boom when it opened it had wines and champagnes at huge prices and in 2013 prime property was also selling for record sums. £18,000 was…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are in Canada with their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte. They have met and socialised with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie and attended numerous entertaining and carefully planned events and ceremonies. Kate has stunned admirers with her beautiful outfits and has sported a diamond…
Ken Loach, awarded the Raindance Auteur Award yesterday, is one of a rare breed who captures life and its rough edges on film in a way that leaves so many of us wanting more. A campaigner for fair treatment for the oppressed or undermined, some of his films address issues head on which initially…