5 min movie guide
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Calvary
In the opening scenes of John Michael McDonagh’s rather violent drama (that I perversely still insist of calling a black comedy despite its tragic ending), we see a Priest taking confession from an unseen man. “I first tasted semen when I was 7 years old’ are the first words out of his mouth and then…
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The Riot Club
The atrocious unsocial behaviour of a group of very wealthy privileged college-age offspring of England’s landed gentry whose utter contempt for the poor is matched by their assumed rights of trashing and vandalising other people’s properties, seems a odd topic for a movie. It’s even more unbelievable when we learn that the current crop of top…
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For A Woman aka Pour Une Femme
Soon after their mother dies in the 1980’s siblings Anne and Tania are sorting through her belongings when they come across a box of old photographs that they had never seen before. Anne, the older of the two is a film director, and is positively intrigued by this discovery. Their mother had always been deliberately…
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Magic In The Moonlight
Within a few minutes after the opening of this movie …. Woody Allen’s 46th, and probably one of his most tedious … it is very obvious that the magic in the title refers strictly to the staged tricks created by the two leading characters and not to the film itself. Allen’s very thin story, set…
