I have always been a sucker for a horse movie – National Velvet, Black Beauty, Secretariat – especially when, like Dream Horse, they’re based on actual events. Dream Horse is the story of a Welsh town that bought a race horse and the way in which doing so brought a sense of pride back to […]
Ben Cash is raising his family to a Platonian ideal. In the forest of Oregon, they live off the land – growing their own fruits and vegetables; hunting their own meat, and learning art, science and philosophy. When a tragedy forces them to enter the ‘real world,’ things get dicey.
Danny Collins is a little movie with a big heart. The titular Danny Collins is a 70-something ex-rocker doing arena tours in which he performs his big hits for audiences of screaming middle-aged and senior citizen sufferers of nostalgia – but things might have been so much better if he’d only gotten the letter John […]