THE INVISIBLE MAN directed by Leigh Whannell (USA, 2020)
Following the welcome conviction of Harvey Weinstein and the exposure of simlar abuses prompted by the #metoo movement, movie-makers are treading on eggshells when it comes to depicting modern relationships. Unsurprisingly, there are noticeably fewer scenes of physical and psychological violence.
Many will welcome this trend, but it does not mean that the problem has magically gone away. Far from it, cases of gaslighting, domestic assaults and femicide feature all too prominantly in the media every day. The impression you get is that Weinstein’s litany of abuse was just the tip of a very unpleasant iceberg. Continue reading
Hitting a financial crisis, a family from Pondicherry in India decide to cut their losses and move to Canada taking their zoo with them so that they can sell the animals to help support themselves. During the ship journey they encounter a violent storm and all die expect for a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, Pi and a Bengal tiger. Eventually this lifeboat load is reduced to just Pi and the tiger.
Until it was yuppified , Soho was a seedy area of Central London with strip clubs, triple X cinemas, ‘adult’ video stores and rooms where you could rent the personal services of young ‘models’ who claimed to be fluent in French or Greek.
