In this middle-aged Cinderella story Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is propelled into the high life when she manoeuvres a job as an actress’s social secretary. Miss Pettigrew lands a job as Delysia Lafosse’s (Amy Adams) social secretary when she manages to save Lafosse from imminent catastrophe as Pettigrew prevents her two lovers from meeting early [...]
I saw Wall-E last night. I know it’s a kids film, but I loved it. You will hear none of my usual vitriol for films today. It was heartwarming, sad, and just beautiful. You would have to be dead inside not to enjoy it. I was in tears from about half way through until the [...]
In the past fortnight I have had the misfortune (somewhat self inflicted) to have seen both Wanted and Priceless in the cinema and following Peter Bradshaw’s review of Wanted, I wanted to compare the two to see which was (a) more misogynist and (b) worse .
Bradshaw describes women in Wanted as being represented by:
‘irrelevant sleek babes [...]
I saw Persepolis earlier this week, and it was the charming and life-affirming antidote to everything that I was lamenting in cinema recently. Stark and seemingly simple in its greyscale animation it tells a very human and universal story of growing up, only against the backdrop of the Iranian revolution.
Marji is one of the most [...]