
Strange Fruit: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon
Behind the Candelabra
Playing someone (in)famously described as…
… a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love
…takes a lot of humour.…
Behind the Candelabra


Scooped! a kiss from Jean Dujardin
Somehow, I managed to steal a kiss from Jean Dujardin, who was wildly popular with the French crowd at Cannes, and wholly unknown by everyone else, back then in May 2011. Somehow, all the fuss seemed to be about Uggy, the dog, winner of…

Unlawful Killing: Gangsters in Tiaras and Shrinks in Armchairs
In short - “They murdered ‘er and then they covered it up.” You can bet that this phrase featured either in Private Eye’s ‘Great Bores of Today’ or ‘A Taxi Driver Writes’ and, if the latter, was followed by “I ‘ad that…

We Have a Chest: Cheryl Cole hits Cannes
It's true that you've never got your camera to hand when you really want one, and I kicked myself earlier in the week as I happened upon DeNiro, Jude Law and Linn Ullmann exiting the back of the Majestic Hotel, where the Festival…

Full of … Grace
Grace Kelly – The Monaco Years, an exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of her death, eclipsed attempts by all others to do the same, which was, of course, the point.
Her dresses were later passed to London's Victoria and Albert…

From Russia with Love
The domes of La Chiesa di Cristo Salvatore, Santa Caterina Martire e San Serafino di Sarov (Church of Christ the Savior, St. Catherine the Martyr and St. Serafin de Sarov) are its most beautiful and distinctive attributes. They featured…

Karma Cinema
In 2004, Amazon.com released a series of short films under the brand Amazon Theater, each of which was a different take on the theme of karma. I've since discovered them on YouTube:-
Portrait
Careful What You Wish For
Do…