RIFLE RANGE BOY

Green Book (2018) The moment you see the protagonist of the film, Tony Vallelonga, an out-of-job New York Italian nightclub bouncer, chuck a pair of drinking glasses into the bin all because two black plumbers drank from it, you know what the story is all about and which direction the movie would progress. Sure enough, it turned out just like what you predicted. What keeps you glued to the screen, however, is the dialogue between Tony and his new employer, Doc Don Shirley, an accomplished musician, who turned of to be black. The sort of coming-of-age film turns out to be an eye-opener for both parties. For Tony, to accept people of colour for their character and for Doc,  a realisation that even the whites go through hardship like the blacks. It was set in the heady times of 1962 when racial tension was a heated topic. There are numerous leg tapping songs of the era to transform viewers to a time when life was not (it never had been) had its own problems. Being pol...

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) They use to say that blood is thicker than water. Logically, Nature would not want its own kind to destroyed. The selfish gene must surely want its continuity of species. The last thing that it would wish for is for hosts carrying somewhat similar genetic materials going for each other's jugular.  In life, however, sibling rivalry is genuine.  Tales of the vengeful Cain over his younger brother, Abel, is one which had been in the annals of mankind as long as Man can remember (being Adam's offspring). Siblings, fighting for recognition over the other and yearning for requited love from their elders, have plunged them into the abyss of darkness to prove their point, sometimes unsuccessfully, with disastrous outcomes. Many victims of depression and adjustment disorders have blamed the stress of growing up with a high achieving person as possibly the prime cause of their malady. In the Hollywood circle, primadonnas Betty...