Losing a child is one of the most traumatic things that can happen to a person. You would get no argument on that count from Philomena Lee (Dame Judi Dench), a now elderly Irish woman who was forced to give up her son to adoption when she was a Continue Reading

  Populaire, from first time French director Régis Roinsard, is that rare modern romantic comedy – one that seeks to emulate the oneliner-rich battle-of-the-sexes comedies of the ’50s and ’60s, such as the ones that starred Doris Day and Rock Hudson (Pillowtalk, Send Me No Flowers) … and succeeds. That is Continue Reading

  So here’s a question for you. What would you do if you found yourself in a new country with a very new baby, more cardboard boxes that you can count and whole lot of time within the newly arrived at four walls of your home? Would you (a) start Continue Reading

  John Donne is rightly famous for observing that “no man is an island, entire of itself”, a sentiment with which a separated and soon-to-be-divorced Theodore Twombly ( played with engaging vulnerability and sweetness by Joaquim Phoenix), the protagonist in director Spike Jonze’s latest film, her, might well agree. Adrift Continue Reading

  SHAPSHOT After losing an audition for her dream job, an aspiring Los Angeles TV news anchor goes out for an uncharacteristic night of partying. She awakes in a stranger’s bed to a phone message from her agent telling her the job is hers, if she can make it across Continue Reading