Tony Klinger

I have a friend in the States who is a habitué of a Los Angeles restaurant that allows smoking in an outside-tented area. Most nights you can see a sad looking man with a mashed up, plastic looking face sitting at a corner table, he looks like an old pro boxer who has had too [...]

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“Slumdog Millionaire” is a modern fable, a feel good movie that is wonderful, heartwarming and richly rewarding. I don’t quite accept the critical claims for this film being great, but it does deserving the avalanche of accolades it has already amassed, and all the awards it is likely to receive.
In his latest film, “Slumdog Millionaire,” [...]

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“Doubt” is a film that makes you think about your faith and the doubts we all harbor from time to time. The stars are the versatile and excellent Meryl Streep as the nun who runs the Catholic school and the compulsively viewable and gifted Philip Seymour Hoffman as her priest. They are both wonderful, if [...]

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For the record, this film is a great movie, not just of this year as it will stand the test of time and be recognized as the minor classic it surely is.
Taken from the slight short story by one of America’s outstanding novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the screenplay is by Eric Roth who never misses [...]

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A Gran Torino from the 50’s is a very desirable vintage car; it is also a very desirable film that you should consume as soon as it has arrived at a cinema near you. The Gran Torino in question is owned by Clint Eastwood’s character, `Kowalski, in this truly excellent motion picture.
There have been two [...]

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