5 min movie guide
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Starred Up
Violent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in them. ‘Starred Up’ with a brilliant career-making performance from 23 year old Jack O’Connell is one such movie especially as it has the near-obligatory shower scene that ends…
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Pulp : A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Gangly geek Jarvis Cocker is the most unlikely looking rock-star ever, but seeing the front man of the British indie-pop group PULP ignite frenzied crowds of a packed stadium, you realize that he is in fact one of the very best. His quintessentially English band enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success in the late 1990’s before…
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Trust Me
I did ‘trust’ actor turned writer/director Clark Gregg that after watching the trailer that this, his sophomore feature, was a comedy. Far from it, even though it has some comic moments this dark story of a Hollywood Agent whose career is sinking below rock bottom, is quite a depressing affair. Gregg stars as Howard Holloway…
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The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
The late great Sophie Tucker was one the World’s most popular and successful entertainers for the first half of the 20 Century. This very early superstar with her wonderful range of comic and risque songs was one of the first women in show business who pioneered the way grabbing top billing in Vaudeville Theater, on…
