"I run a tight ship"

This season of Boardwalk Empire starts off at a pensive tactful pace. Things have settled down in Atlantic city in the wake of last season’s putsch, spearheaded by Jimmy Darmordy Nucky’s apprentice and Eli Thompson Nucky’s brother. It was certainly the…

Walter White inducts himself into the pantheon of truly iconic American characters, who in good conscience can deny him. It's a list that spans both television and film, film being since time immemorial the superior sibling who now looks at his flourishing brother a tad enviously.

" Because I said so"

I found myself at my cousins embarked on an Asian film marathon; our…

Jane Eyre, played here by Mia Wasikowska of Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and last years Albert Noobs, is not for point of reference a new marvel extension to Magneto’s origin story (although this writer's still waiting for one). Neither is it one of those neo-gothic themed, Nicholas Sparkes-esque, saccharinely dull romance flicks we have been so blighted by of late (Twilight). The source material, of which I am eminently familiar as I just finish reading the book the day before I watched…

The Color Purple-Tyc-T review

This film is very much the achilles heel of those who inhabit the “Read novel before watching the Film group”. Putting it quite simply the existential & thought provoking plot detailing the life and times of a black destitute and latent lesbian woman, in what can only be described as the “dirty dirty”(rural Georgia) in the Jim crow era, is translated to film as the story of a merely shy and introverted( Whoopi Goldberg) who on entering a friendship…