Review of "Captain Phillips"

quite gripping as a thriller, totally boys film - only two women appear his wife in the first 2 minutes and a doctor in the last 2 minutes. Interesting to read the true story and see how it has been adapted - not too badly sexed up it seems although perhaps he wasn't as much a hero as painted in the film.

Review of "Diary of a Lost Girl with Wurlitza"

Good story and quality film making (for the silent era) with excellent soundtrack performed live by Wurlitza

Review of "Night Moves"

For the first half its a conventional thriller taking the side of the young activists as they execute their plot to blow up an environmentally damaging hydro dam. After the attempt things go a bit wrong and it becomes an observational psychological drama before a climax and then departing in a new direction. Very believable characters and place. A couple of minor issues - I don't think if you were going to do an action like that you wouldn't think through the possible consequences and be better prepared for them. Very good that the film doesn't moralise about their action, it simply raises the activists own internal moral ambiguity. In some ways the climax was a bit wrong and forced, but the ending is superb.