Author: Gina

The Fifth Estate Movie – Reviewed by Gina Baker

Gina /1 December, 2013

The Fifth Estate screenplay by West Wing writer Josh Singer is good, in fact it is a valiant attempt to dramatise the WikiLeaks story but, for all its style and panache on the screen, the story itself lacks drama. The principal characters face no real peril: just the amorphous threat of possible arrest. It would Continue Reading →

Gravity draws audience inexorably inwards

Gina /10 October, 2013

Director Alfonso Cuarón, apparently took four and a half years to complete this eagerly awaited film Gravity. You may remember his famous 10 minute  accident scene tracking shot in his last film the moody classic “Children of Men”. He says this shot was an accident because he yelled cut but no one heard him. Cuaron Continue Reading →