Killer Elite is a Fairytale for Big Boys

Just like Sex & The City movies and most romantic comedies are fairytales for grown-up girls, action movies like Killer Elite are fairytales for grown-up boys. Even though I’m not a boy nor completely grown-up, I got a kick out of watching it. It opens in...

My Week With Marilyn In 100 Minutes

A feature-length film shows us the real power of Marilyn Monroe through the eyes of a 23 year old guy who spent one week with her in his first job as a 3rd assistant director on The Prince & The Showgirl (1957) It was nominated for 5 BAFTA awards. Michelle...

Buck The Original Horse Whisperer

This is a documentary called Buck, about Buck and narrated by Buck.  The trailer alone is so deeply moving, I called the distributor immedately and said I have to interview this man.  When I sat with him in a hotel room, camera rolling, I was in a kind of...

Any Questions For Ben? A Review

This movie has achieved something elusive and so far impossible within romantic comedy – it asks a bigger question than other examples in its genre and answers it better than anything made in Hollywood [arguably] the traditional home of the modern rom com. Even...