The ColCoa film festival is known to showcase la crème de la crème of French cinema in Los Angeles. Their edition of 2018 didn’t disappoint. French filmmaker Xavier Legrand came to present Custody. We met at the Sunset Marquis hotel by the pool, quite a significant gap between his social reality drama and that charming setting. Let’s be honest, unless you’re into short-films or theater, the name of Xavier Legrand didn’t really ring a bell – until r...

7 Days in Entebbe/Entebbe, Review: Week plot In the cast are the President of Uganda and Prime Minister of Israel, Defence Minister of Israel as well as several Israeli Prime Ministers-to-be. The plot consists of the most daring rescue operation, called Thunderbolt, violating the international border of a friendly country, aerospace as well as land trespass. Indeed, some might even say that it was the Israelis who taught the Western powers how to attack the enemy by air and on land, wherever ...

The Program, Review: Enhanced performances First, there was a musician called Louis Armstrong. Then most of earth and all of moon heard about Neil Armstrong. Much later, we read and saw the exploits of cycling champion Lance Armstrong. Louis remains a musical great. Man-on-the-moon was an unimaginable theory that captured the hearts and minds of the whole world, but has now found its detractors, probably growing steadily in number, who claim the whole program (American spelling intended) was ...