by Alica McKenna Johnson | Feb 17, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
This is one of those movies that I own. It’s funny, sweet, charming, and has a great ending. Grace’s husband commits suicide, leaving her alone and shockingly horribly in debt, so she does what any normal middle aged house wife would do, she grows pot. Craig Ferguson...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jan 13, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
Two Fat Ladies is a hysterical British cooking show staring Clarissa Dickson-Wright and Jennifer Paterson. The ladies travel around England in a motorcycle with a sidecar. The ladies use fresh, local ingredients to make traditional English meals. This is a wonderful...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 9, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
Attack the Block This film is what I mean when I talk about adding diversity without making it the focal point in your work. Attack the Block takes place in a London slum run by a drug gang. The main characters are black teenagers whose best option is getting in good...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Oct 21, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
I watched three movies this week to share with all of you. The first, Grimm, is a Dutch film the back cover led me to believe that it was a story about two adults trying to survive when they land in a fairy tale world- kind of an adult Hansel and Gretel. I have no...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Sep 9, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
Black Books from BBC is my pick for the fifteenth Foreign Film Friday. This is a quirky show which takes place in a bookshop. The owner Bernard Black is drunk, rude, and will use a broom to shoo customers out of his shop just because he can. Next door his long time...
