In ‘Learning to Drive’, Wendy (Patricia Clarkson), a self-absorbed New York book critic, is shocked to reality by the sudden end of her marriage. Always dependent on her husband for driving, she must now learn to take the wheel on her own. Her instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) is a Sikh Indian who watches with alarm as […]
Category Archives: Late to the Party
Late to the Party: Dear White People
‘Dear White People’ is a movie that follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where controversy breaks out over a popular but offensive black-face party thrown by white students. I had seen the trailer for it a fair while ago, but it took a long time for the film to actually […]
Late to the Party: Get on Up
James Brown is one of the most influential musicians of this generation, and he has said as much on multiple occasions. I could ask pretty much anyone I know and they would be able to do a James Brown impersonation, or name a song of his, even if they aren’t a fan of funk music […]
Late to the Party: The Other Woman
When I first heard about ‘The Other Woman’ I was cautiously optimistic about it: a movie about ladies working together against a cheating partner and supporting each other throughout it all, why wouldn’t I like it? But as always I wasn’t excited about it enough to spend the $20 to see it in the cinema and […]
Late to the Party: Attack the Block
While John Boyega’s popularity has exploded since Star Wars came out, a lot of people know him from his first film ‘Attack the Block’. I’ve been meaning to watch this movie for a while, so I figured now was a good time to bite the bullet and actually sit through the whole film. ‘Attack the […]