5 min movie guide
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THE BLING RING
Rebecca is a teenager living in Los Angeles who has a passion for shiny things and an obsession with skin deep celebrity fame. Her middle class parents have separated and seem to exert little or no influence over this spoilt young girl who believes that she is entitled to better possessions/life even if they are…
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MENTAL
There is an hilariously funny opening sequence when the camera swoops down from the nearby mountains to spot Shirley, a suburban housewife on the verge of a breakdown, hanging out her washing in her garden whilst she recreates the beginning of ‘The Sound of Music’ that she is totally obsessed with. Her five daughters however…
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Breakup at a Wedding
I will confess that I was drawn to this very quirky wee comedy by its title and by its whole concept. Its a hybrid of a movie within a movie that’s essentially a video of the wedding from hell. Alison the bride has got cold feet on the day she is about to marry Phil,…
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CHICKEN WITH PLUMS
Set in Tehran in 1958 (when the Shah was on the throne of what was still known as Persia) Nasser Ali Khan an obsessive and brilliant musician is driven to suicidal despair when his wife smashes up his irreplaceable violin in a fit of (justified) pique. He very melodramatically takes to his bed for 8…
