5 min movie guide
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The Hundred Foot Journey
A more apt title for this preposterous and painfully unfunny comedy would be ‘Lost in Translation’. Based on a best selling novel by Richard C. Morais this new movie from the Oscar nominated king of syrupy schmaltz Lasse Hallstrom (‘Cider House Rules’ & ‘Chocolat’) and produced by Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Spielberg must have seemed like a fantastic idea on…
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Mr. Turner
Mike Leigh’s stunning biopic of J.M.W.Turner is the portrait of the leading English Romantic landscape artist who was evidently also quite a philanderer and misanthrope too. Set in the 1820’s (although Leigh never tells us that) the movie focuses on the last 20 years of the painter’s life when he was at the height of…
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Horns
Daniel Radcliffe has made some interesting career choices since casting off his Harry Potter psyche, and his role in Alexandre Aja’s romantic/comic/horror fable is no exception. Adapted from a novel by Stephen King’s son Joe, this rather bizarre but completely absorbing thriller is the tale of a young man who, after he is wrongly accused of…
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Birdman
Ex-Batman actor Michael Keaton must have felt more than a touch of deja-vu in the title role of Alejandro G. Inarritu’s brilliant dark comedy about an actor trying to redeem his career by staging a serious dramatic Broadway debut after his career as a movie comic-book hero has faded. The movie filmed almost entirely in…
