It’s September and 11 year old Jamie is going to a run of the mill comprehensive and living on a sink estate. The only bright spot for Jamie is that he is living with Charlie, his father, who has big plans and one last secret mission to complete.
In an attempt to evade the enemy agents Jamie helps Charlie with delivering the final vital documents, enthralling the young boys imagination as he hides from passers by and creates diversions.
However as they wait for the final £2 million payment it slowly becomes clear to Jamie that maybe things aren’t exactly as his dad is making out.
Robert Carlyle is quoted as saying that he feels this is one of his best performances – and it’s probably true. He brilliantly and flawlessly portrays a man pushed to the brink of sanity by forces outside his control, and his attempts to reconcile them.
Young Jamie is touchingly portrayed by newcomer Aaron Fuller who perfectly displays the love and concern for his father.
Highly recommended. I Know You Know is directed by Justin Kerrigan and released via Network Releasing
Wow, Tim Burton has done it again; Alice in Wonderland will blow your mind. It’s a gripping and entertaining film from start to finish and it gives the classical children’s tale a new lease of life that will appeal to a huge array of people.
Burton’s Alice in Wonderland takes us on a journey that combines aspects of the original Disney film with aspects from Lewis Carroll’s books as Alice returns to ‘Underland’ in her teenage years to face her destiny.
Alice (Mia Wasikowska) needs an escape from the pressures of a high class engagement party where she is in the spot light and facing an unexpected marriage proposal from a ginger Lord with sensitive digestion, so she follows the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) down a hole in a tree trunk and finds herself in the fantastical world from her childhood dreams. (more…)
Despite it’s name, the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival didn’t actually take place in Woodstock as the local inhabitants at the time were scared of what a few hundred hippies would do to their town.
In the end the festival took place in White Lake with nearly half a million people attending or at least trying to.
Ang Lee’s latest film Taking Woodstock tells the story of Elliot Tiber and how he brought the festival to his hometown. Played wonderfully by Demetri Martin, Elliot is finding his feet as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, and feeling at home with the burgeoning gay rights movement. (more…)