Category: Film

The trouble about making a film based on a true story  like this  is that one has to become a kind of slave to facts. In this case the facts are that two young boys, Rinku and Kinesh,  were plucked from obscurity in India in 2008 to join a major league  baseball team in America.…

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Can friends who become lovers preserve their friendship or are the two circumstances mutually exclusive? This was a theme that was explored to some acclaim in When Harry Met Sally. Here it acquires a somewhat different spin. Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) is a medical student drop-out who's trying to recover from being rejected by his girlfriend.…

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"He who searches for God," they say, "has already found him." Or in the words of Christopher Plummer from this whimsical movie: "The pursuit of happiness isn't as important as the happiness of pursuit." Hector (Simon Pegg) is a London psychiatrist.  Like T.S. Eliot's Prufrock, he has his life measured out in coffee spoons. He's good…

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The depiction of Our Lady in films has usually been in a secondary capacity to that of Jesus for obvious reasons but there have been a few where she has indeed occupied centre stage, as it were. This was most apparent in The Song of Bernadette (1943) which featured Linda Darnell as the Virgin Mary. This…

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