5 min movie guide
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PRINCE AVALANCHE
This unlikely synopsis of two loners spending the summer painting the yellow lines on a deserted highway in the backwoods of Texas turned out to be quiet wee gem of an oddball movie. Set in 1988 when time really seemed to stand still, it is the most gentlest of buddy movies where a budding relationship…
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ONLY GOD FORGIVES
There’s an awful lot of violence, and a great deal of red, and hardly any screenplay and just a mere hint of emotion in Nicolas Winding Refn’s controversial new movie that the Critics have either vehemently panned or praised lavishly: there is no sitting on the fence on this one. Julien, a man of very…
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THE ACT OF KILLING
The subject of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiercely compelling documentary is definitely one of the most evil and sadistic acts of genocide that I have ever seen on the silver screen. It tells some of the stories of the Indonesian death squads of the mid 1960’s who tortured and killed over one million ‘communists’ at the behest…
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UNREAL
What starts out as yet another reality TV show which follows three 20 year-old-something couples who have just broken up and are about to enter the dating scene again, turns into something a little more complex. At first some of them seem a tad uncomfortable having their own camera crew tag behind them 24/7 (but…
