As I said before on S & A, we try as hard as we can to cover everything regarding black cinema; but occasionally, we miss something when it's timely, only to eventually find out about it later.And I like to think that I’m pretty good on being on top of things, which is why, when I found out about the British film Tamla Rose - written and directed by Joe Scott - which we had never covered before on S & A, I was rather surprised. So I thought , what better time to make up for that oversight than right now.As you can tell from the trailer below, it's a very modestly made musical drama that's set in Liverpool in 2008, about a young singer, Tamla Rose (played by...
- 3/26/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The Hobbit | Fill The Void | The Innocents | The Christmas Candle | Cinema Paradiso | Tamla Rose
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (12A)
(Peter Jackson, 2013, Us/Nz) Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch. 161 mins
If the first Hobbit movie felt padded out, that didn't seem to put anyone off: its global box-office take was more than $1bn. But now all that protracted set-up is out of the way this middle section hits the ground running and barely lets up, as Freeman and his dwarves hack their way through a theme park's worth of action adventures to close in on the Lonely Mountain. It's a giddy ride, for sure, but we also get a fuller sense of Middle Earth's landscape and inhabitants. Oh yes, and there's a dragon…
Fill The Void (U)
(Rama Burshtein, 2012, Isr) Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg. 91 mins
The strictures of ultra-orthodox Judaism give this modern-day story a curiously archaic feel,...
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (12A)
(Peter Jackson, 2013, Us/Nz) Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch. 161 mins
If the first Hobbit movie felt padded out, that didn't seem to put anyone off: its global box-office take was more than $1bn. But now all that protracted set-up is out of the way this middle section hits the ground running and barely lets up, as Freeman and his dwarves hack their way through a theme park's worth of action adventures to close in on the Lonely Mountain. It's a giddy ride, for sure, but we also get a fuller sense of Middle Earth's landscape and inhabitants. Oh yes, and there's a dragon…
Fill The Void (U)
(Rama Burshtein, 2012, Isr) Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg. 91 mins
The strictures of ultra-orthodox Judaism give this modern-day story a curiously archaic feel,...
- 12/14/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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