Author: Boyd van Hoeij

Spencer

Posted by | Sep 3, 2021 | |

There’s an extraordinary scene early on in Spencer in which Princess Diana, played by Kristen Stewart, rips off her pearl necklace during a Christmas-Eve dinner with the royal family, sending pearls everywhere. She hates the...

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Promises

Posted by | Sep 1, 2021 | |

“I reject the cynical view that politics is inevitably or even usually dirty business,” Richard Nixon said in a televised address more than a year into the Watergate scandal. It is the kind of quote that French director...

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The Staffroom

Posted by | Aug 31, 2021 | |

A newly appointed school counselor in Croatia tries to keep her head above water in the shark tank that is The Staff Room (Zbornica),  an auspicious if somewhat meandering feature debut from filmmaker Sonja Tarokic. Less a...

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Onoda — 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Posted by | Aug 31, 2021 | |

Onoda Hiroo was the name of the famous Japanese soldier who refused to believe that WWII had ended, so he remained in hiding on a sparsely populated island in the Philippines for almost three decades. His story of endurance, as...

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