“A psychological drama that breaks new ground.”

REVIEW OF THE SHACK  SEPTEMBER 2017 There are only 3 basic storylines say some seasoned writing experts. That said, The Shack is no ordinary story and unfolds as an eerie drama with some resolutions for the protagonist and the viewer but also leaving a lot of unanswered questions. As a young boy, Mack gets beaten…

How Rape and Murder has made good viewing

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 – but is it also you?

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…

Between Rock and a hard place…

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…

A dark story with a light touch

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…

Car ploughs to pavement and injures 11

A man was dragged from a black Toyota Prius Plus and arrested after his car mounts pavement outside London’s Natural History Museum injuring 11 people. The car mounted the pavement before ploughing into two other vehicles, hitting innocent pedestrians as they made their way to the museum, Security guards appeared on the scene and dragged…

Supremacy of Big Tech

  The rise of Big Tech and the fall of the fourth estate, and its effects on democracy. Franklin Foer, a former editor of US political magazine the New Republic, highlights the Tech Company’s monopoly power and its ability to influence election outcomes and its capture of our brain space, and all this have become…

A trip across the British Islands

Patrick Barkham reveals the natural, social and literary history of the Islands that surround the larger Island of Britain, by starting his journey on the Isle of Man, discovering more complex and interesting than the tax-avoiding crooks, his explanation driven by curiosity with a nose for a unique story. He mentions a collection of island-loving…

The 2017 Nobel Literature Prize has been awarded to novelist Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro (62) OBE FRSA FRSL, the Nagasaki born British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer, who explores “what you have to forget to survive”, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Literature prize, after the controversy last year when it honoured Bob Dylan, the US singer-songwriter, who initially declined to acknowledge the honour  and did…

Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners

  The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for improving images made of biological molecules and they will share the  £ 831,000 (nine million Kronor) prize. The scientists developed a technique called cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), which streamlines the process for looking at the…