5 min movie guide
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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…
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NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
Jonah is a scruffy twenty-something who lives in a large ramshackled house in Sydney’s inner city that he inherited from his parents and now shares with his two best friends Gus and Stevie with whom he makes a passable living throwing weekly wild house parties. Money may be tight, but there is plenty of drugs, sex…
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I GIVE IT A YEAR
This new British romantic comedy from the Producers of the 1994 surprise mega-hit ‘Four Weddings & A Funeral’ starts where usually most others end i.e. with a lavish Church wedding. After a fairly whirlwind courtship laid-back novelist Josh is marrying high-flying brand consultant Nat much to the slight disbelief of several of their friends and…
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
In the same year that the UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company films a live performance of ‘Much Ado’ at The Globe Theatre in London is there really a need for yet another movie of this classic comedy? After seeing Joss Whedon’s exhilarating contemporary version, the answer is a very definite ‘yes’! Writer/director Whedon best known for ‘Buffy…
