5 min movie guide
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LINCOLN
Stephen Spielberg’s epic take on Abraham Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery can be described simply as a cinematic masterpiece. Penned by Tony Kushner (from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s best selling novel) with a magnificent intrepid cast, it is unquestionably one of THE best movies of the year. The Academy Award for Best Actor is Daniel Day-Lewis’s…
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LOLA VERSUS
After Lola has been dumped by her fiance just weeks before the wedding in this rather lightweight rom-com it’s clear that the full title of the piece should have been ‘Lola Versus The World’. And guess what? ‘The World’ won in this somewhat annoying struggle that a very whinny Lola has when she tries to…
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GREGORY CREWDSON : BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Brooklyn native ex-punk rocker turned photographer Gregory Crewdson is something of an enigma. Over a period of some six years he produced a whole body of work called ‘Beneath The Roses’ which were large scale photographs of meticulously designed scenarios that he had set up as full-blown movie sets. In this fascinating documentary by filmmaker Ben Shapiro (‘Paul Goodman Changed…
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PARK BENCHES aka BANCS PUBLICS
From its pedigree alone this movie should have been completely wonderful. Directed and penned by award-winning actor/director Bruno Podalydes and with a cast of that was like a veritable who’s who of French Cinema it had all the hallmarks of a sure-fire hit instead of the reality of the total dud it actually turned out…
