There’s a good chance that most reading this column will never have heard of the writer/director and star of the new Spanish speaking comedy Instructions Not Included, Eugenio Derbez, and with good reason.  He’s a Mexican television actor who is arguably the most famous comedian in Latin America.  South of the border, he is […]

  The title Short Term 12 refers to the juvenile care facility where young, twenty-something Grace (Brie Larson) works as a supervisor for at-risk teenagers. “You’re not the parent, you’re not their therapist,” Grace tells Nate (Rami Malek), the newbie on his first day.  “You’re here to make a safe environment.”  The teens at the […]

  There is no major city in the western world more populated with closed circuit cameras than the city of London.  Real life villains of the past, now retired, have publicly stated how difficult it is to commit a crime on the streets of London without it being watched and recorded.  There’s also no governmental […]

  That great British institution of the Pub Crawl is a genuine cultural phenomenon.   Other countries may have the Bar Hop, but the Crawl is something quite different.  It has to be.  The way the British pubs are set up and located with their proximity to each other, the Crawl in its truest form is […]