At The Movies for Wednesday 1 August 2018

AT THE MOVIES #736                   ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM

Simon Morris looks at some movies that, one way or another, reflect on film-makers’ dreams – to get a film made, to get a good film made, and of course, to achieve fame and fortune.

Whitney charts the rise and fall of one of the great stars of the Eighties and Nineties – Whitney Houston.

Funny Cow is a love-letter – in a way – to the old-fashioned comedy circuit of Northern England’s clubs, and that rare thing there, a female comic.  Stars Maxine Peake.

And some of the Kiwi up and comers at the Film Festival – the six finalists in. the Short Film competition, and one of the winners at the Moscow Film Festival, New Zealand film Stray, directed by Dustin Fenelay.