IDEAL HOME (2018)

Angel/Bill, a child who lost his mother to a drug-induced accident, watches his widowed father get arrested for drug-trafficking and is left alone to search out and be taken in by the grandfather he never met – Erasmus (Steve Coogan), an eccentric cooking show host in a dysfunctional romantic relationship with his show’s producer, Paul (Paul Rudd). The film tackles …

THE DRESSMAKER (2015)

After finishing ‘The Dressmaker’ (2015). I have to say, for a movie that I had never heard of – I was really impressed by this ‘Australian revenge comedy-drama’ starring Kate Winslet & Liam Hemsworth. Production value was pretty astounding – transforming natural settings in the outback into the 1950’s era that the story was set in both in the set build …

CHASING AMY (1997)

The third film by celebrated independent filmmaker Kevin Smith from Red Bank, New Jersey who rose to cult icon status for his first two films Clerks (1994), and Mallrats (1995). Chasing Amy (1997) is a film made in the midst of Smith’s film explosion that came under much scrutiny due to it’s heavily sexual and heavily (for the time) controversial examination of non-linear sexuality …