5 min movie guide
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Have no great expectations of Mike Newell’s new much abridged version of Charles Dicken’s classic story but you will at least get a real visual treat that Oscar nominated cinematographer John Mathieson has created here with his dramatically lit sweeping landscapes. Of all the previous 18 + times this story has been brought to the big and…
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WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS
The opening scenes of this new documentary …. with its perfectly wonderful title …. reels off a whole list of extraordinary facts about the small town of Branson in Missouri that you are almost tempted to book a flight there immediately. With a local population of just over 10000 all year round, they get a…
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LUCKY
Lucky is a shrewd 10 year old boy who quickly realises that even when you are cute and doe-eyed as his is, that trying to charm immovable adults to get your own way is a complete waste of time. As is having a temper tantrum. Living with his grandmother in a poor Zulu village in…
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SHUN LI AND THE POET
Shun Li is a barmaid at small working men’s cafe in a sleepy lagoon town just north of Venice. Her job is the price that she must pay for being able to leave China for which she is totally beholden to her shady Chinese employers, and once they decide her debt is paid they will bring over…
