Dallas Buyers Club

Matthew McConaughey stars as Ron Woodroof, the real life hard living, homophobic blue-collar guy (electrician and a bull-rider) diagnosed with HIV in 1985 and subsequently challenged pharmaceutical laws, the actor electrifies as he finds commercial yet philanthropic ways to help himself and other people living with the HIV virus, when AIDS was seen as an […]

12 Years a Slave

The film has deservedly won the Golden Globe, BAFTA and now the Academy Award for best picture.   Chiwetel Ejiofor missed out on the best actor at the Oscars yet walked off with the BAFTA for his portrayal of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York in the 1840s, who is abducted […]

Grand Budapest Hotel

Filmmaker Wes Anderson’s adventures of the wonderful Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars in the fictitious Republic of Zubrowka and his educating of and friendship with lobby boy Zero Moustafa.   In true Anderson style the film plays beautifully with narrative structure (similar to ‘The Royal Tanenbaums’), adding […]