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Peterloo : Mike Leigh’s take of one of the UK’s darkest moments from the past

Veteran British Filmmaker the 7 time Academy Award Nominee Mike Leigh’s latest film takes a look back at a disgraceful part of English history that most people are totally unaware of. This epic length drama is from one of the most lauded auteurs in indie cinema whose work however never really enjoys mush commercial success,.  … Continue reading

PHILOMENA

It’s Anthony’s 50th birthday, a fact that Jane discovers when she finds her mother Philomena crying over an old photograph.  Anthony is the son that she had out of wedlock as a teenager in Ireland and who was forcibly taken by Nuns and given away for adoption. It’s a tale that she has kept to … Continue reading

Phoenix

As WW2 ends German former nightclub singer Nelly is shot as she leaves Auschwitz and her face is severely disfigured. When she arrives back home to a war-torn Berlin, her best friend Lene takes control and whisks her off to see the best plastic surgeon money can buy. With all her Jewish family now dead … Continue reading

PINA

Encountering the work of the revolutionary dancer choreographer Pina Bausch for the very first time reminded me yet again of the great cultural abyss I live in at times, and if it hadn’t been for watching Wim Wender’s enchanting documentary, I would have missed knowing about her completely. Ms. Bausch once described the human impulse to … Continue reading

PINK RIBBONS INC

It’s questionable if filmmaker Lea Pool’s investigation into the breast cancer movement suffers from the lack of an indignant Michael Moore type expose but it does raise some very pertinent issues about this unwieldy juggernaut of a crusade that some think may now be out of control. Pool does however overload us somewhat with a … Continue reading

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