5 min movie guide
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MY FAVORITE INDIE MOVIES OF 2012
I reviewed some 26O movies in 2012 … and as I am reasonably careful(!) about what I choose to watch, there were very few humdingers. There were in fact some really stunning cinematic treats that made my year so much richer, and that I was really excited to share with you. This however is…
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HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
FDR was evidently quite the whizz at fooling a lot of people a lot of the time, and yet when he was found out, it appears he was always forgiven. Eventually. With the co-operation of the media who never photographed him a wheelchair most of the American general public never knew that they were re-electing…
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THE MEN NEXT DOOR
This is the latest movie from writer/director/producer Rob Williams who is a leading exponent of a genre that I call ‘Boy-Lit’. Light bubbly stories where boy meets boy, boy loses boy, then boy meets (another?) boy again, and lives happily ever after. Nothing heavy to test the brain, or challenge any assumption that love always wins…
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BWAKAW
Rene is a lonely grumpy 70 year old man who has alienated the few people in his life with his caustic comments and his decidedly unfriendly attitude. He lives alone in a shabby house in a small provincial town in the Philippines, and he is just waiting to die. It’s not that he is ill,…
