5 min movie guide
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Bettie Page Reveals All
Bettie Page was a stunningly beautiful American model who in the 1950’s became known as the Queen of Pinups. She was hardly a shy blushing maiden and her lack of inhibition posing for ‘camera clubs’ had made her an instant hit. She was Miss January 1955 as one of the earliest Playmates for Hugh…
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The House I Live In
The overriding feeling one gets after viewing Eugene Jarecki’s powerfully disturbing prize-winning documentary about the ‘War on Drugs’ is a such a huge sense of denial. We may not have been aware of every fine line of detail that Jarecki includes in his far-reaching research but we are all aware of the problem to some…
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GAYBY
Jenn’s biological clock is ticking away and she wants to have a baby whilst she still can. Trouble is none of her beaus stick around longer than a few months, so she falls back on her Plan B. Many years ago at College she entered a pact with her best friend Matt that if she…
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STIFF UPPER LIPS
I discovered this amusing parody of all those Merchant/Ivory British period costume dramas when researching the work of late great Peter Ustinov, and it rather tickled me to be reminded of how very silly Brit comedies can be. This one is like an EM Forster novel (with a nod to Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in…
