Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie’s The Changeover, based on the award-winning 1984 novel of the same name by famed New Zealand children’s author Margaret Mahy, has a bit of a timeless energy to it. Planted firmly in the realm of…
Movie Review: The Journey Ditches Ideology in Favor of Sentimentality
The Journey isn’t a “bad” film. Neither is it particularly good. The film tells the kinda-sorta true story of avowed-political-enemies-turned-best-of-friends Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and serves as a showcase for its two leads. Spall in…
Movie Review: Denial
Some may say that you will never understand the hardships or atrocities our past generations have faced because we have never had to live through them. To an extent, that is true, but that is why we are told stories.…
Gaby’s Movie Review: ‘Ginger and Rosa’
Sally Potter’s latest film explores friendship, love and family in 1960s London during the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of two teenage girls. Elle Fanning and newcomer Alice Englert play inseparable friends, Ginger and Rosa. The two have done…