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El Inca

    This is the tragic real-life story of Edwin Valero who transformed himself from a poor petty-thief living a hand-to-mouth existence in a run down suburban Venezuelan small town to becoming the undefeated super-flyweight, and then lightweight boxing champion of the world. This dramatized account starts when the scrawny fit youngster is spotted in … Continue reading

Elaine Stritch : Shoot Me

  In the year approaching her 87th Birthday Broadway Legend Elaine Stritch allowed first time Director Chiemi Karasawa to follow her around and film her warts and all resulting in this compelling new documentary.  A brave move for someone battling with diabetes and failing health who is determined to keep performing even though it seems such … Continue reading

ELENA

In Andre Zvyagintsev’s rather somber movie set in modern-day Moscow its painfully clear that despite all its fine principles post Soviet Russia is simply just another society where the ‘have’ and the ‘have not’s’ bitterly resent each other.  The wealthy have greatly profited from the new capitalism whilst the poor are finding it difficult to … Continue reading

Elián

Living in Miami in 1999, only one subject dominated all our local media and the national ones too. It was the story of a 5 year old boy called Elián González who had been miraculously rescued floating in a tire inner tube in the middle of the ocean after his Cuban mother had drowned trying … Continue reading

Elle

The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that … Continue reading

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