Reviews by Jeevani Mantota
Talking Heads, Alan Bennett
Jeevani Mantota
Talking Heads was originally written by Alan Bennett to be performed on television, with the monologues delivered by narrators who talk directly into camera. This is not an easy thing to adapt to the ...
20 years ago
Talking Heads, Alan Bennett
American Beauty [18]
Jeevani Mantota
American Beauty introduces us to the life of Lester Burnham, a middle class writer who lives with his career-obsessed wife and angry teenaged daughter. They live together in a stable, to all ...
20 years ago
American Beauty [18]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [PG]
Jeevani Mantota
The film is not very much like the book, but then the book wasn't very much like the radio series and the radio series was different to the TV series, so that's not exactly surprising. The basics of ...
21 years ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [PG]
Shaun of the Dead [15]
Jeevani Mantota
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is 29 and stuck in a dead-end job. His girlfriend, Liz, is tired of spending every evening in the pub and of Shaun's lager lout best friend Ed (Nick Frost) tagging along all the ...
22 years ago
Shaun of the Dead [15]
My Big Fat Greek Wedding [PG]
Jeevani Mantota
Tula is a good Greek girl. She lives at home with her father, who believes that all words (including 'kimono') have roots in Greek, and mother, who proves that a man who thinks he's in charge is ...
23 years ago
My Big Fat Greek Wedding [PG]
Monsoon Wedding [15]
Jeevani Mantota
I’m usually a bit sceptical of English films based in India, mainly because it prompts people to ask me silly questions about my childhood in Sri Lanka. So, when I went to watch Monsoon Wedding, it ...
24 years ago
Monsoon Wedding [15]
End of the Affair [18]
Jeevani Mantota
Now Neil Jordan's adaptation of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is a tale of love, sex and jealousy.
The affair in question begins when a successful home-office worker's wife meets an up ...
24 years ago
End of the Affair [18]
Tomb Raider [12]
Jeevani Mantota
What does Lara croft mean to you? (Big) breasts? Guns? Evil Mummies?
Machines with powerful purring engines and four wheel drive? A woman who lets out a soft grunt very time she pushes something? ...
25 years ago
Tomb Raider [12]
East Is East [15]
Jeevani Mantota
East is East is a side-splittingly funny view of a Pakistani family living in Salford in the 70’s.
George ‘Genghis’ Khan is struggling to bring his seven children up in the only way he knows ...
26 years ago
East Is East [15]
