NINE review

Lucky little me got to see five times Golden Globe nominated movie NINE on Wednesday with thanks to Kate Bowe PR. The five nominations are for Best Actor (Daniel Day Lewis), Best Actress (Marion Cotillard), Best Supporting Actress (Penelope Cruz), Best Song (Cinema Italiano, featured in the trailer below) and finally, Best Picture of the Year. Guido “Maestro” Contini is film director extraordinare in Italy in 1965. He is about to embark on his ninth film and although his early films were huge hits that became a fabric of Italian and Roman society, his more recent films have been flops.

Glorious 39 review

“On the eve of World War II, while the formidable Keyes family tries to uphold their traditional way of life, their daughter Anne sees her life dramatically unravel when she stumbles upon secret recordings of the pro-appeasement.” The story of Glorious 39 centres on Anne Keyes (played by Romola Garai), a young actress and daughter of a House of Commons British MP (Bill Nighy). Anne is the eldest of three children who lead charmed lives between their father’s country residence and their town house in London near to St. Paul’s Cathedral. Times are tense as Hitler begins his take over of mainland Europe, country by country. The British think they have avoided going to war with him and there is a growing pro-appeasement movement in the country intent on any kind of agreement with Hitler and the Nazis that will keep them out of another war so shortly after World … There’s more

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: review

First off let me say that I thoroughly enjoyed The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. What a film! From start to finish it was a visual treat, beautiful and stunning-and I don’t just mean Valentina It was rich in colour, full of the warmth of light in dark places, atmospheric and almost always nocturnal. A jewel to behold.