Day: 29 August 2014

John Bleasdale Venice

Venice 2014: ‘She’s Funny That Way’ review

29 August 201411 December 2017

★★★★☆ Old-fashioned Hollywood pizazz arrived at the Venice Film Festival this year in the form of Peter Bogdanovich’s delightful, zinger-filled farce She’s Funny That Way (2014). Owen Wilson stars as protag Arnold Patterson, a director preparing a play for Broadway. […]

John Bleasdale Venice

Venice 2014: ’99 Homes’ review

29 August 201411 December 2017

★★★★☆ Festival favourite Ramin Bahrani returns to the Venice Lido with 99 Homes (2014), a dramatic thriller set at the sharp-end of the housing crisis. The very first shot shows that there is blood on the bathroom walls of America. […]