5 min movie guide
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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…
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Loitering With Intent
Thirty something-year-old Raf and Dom are best friends and are actor/bartender/waiters who are slowly realizing that they seem to go on fewer and fewer auditions these days, let alone actually book a acting gig. When one of their female acquaintances mentions that her wealthy boss is looking to catch a tax-break by investing a few…
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The Life & Mind of Mark Defriest
Gabriel London’s absorbing new documentary tells the hard-to-believe astonishing story of the man who has been dubbed ‘the Houdini of Florida’ and who has been incarcerated for almost 40 years for simply stealing his father’s tool box and then defying the Prison Authorities ever since. Mark DeFriest was born on August 18, 1960. A…
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Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
Kumiko a disheveled 29 year old real loner ekes out a living in Tokyo as a lowly office secretary before returning each night to the cramped messy apartment she shares with her pet white rabbit. She has discovered an old VHS tape (in what we assume is a dream sequence) and now spends every waking moment replaying it over and over…
