5 min movie guide
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KENNETH WILLIAMS : FANTABULOSA!
The late great Kenneth Williams could easily be described as Britain’s own Charles Nelson Reilly. Both men were celebrated classical trained actors who worked with all the major stars of their day, but they actually found their own fame with their outrageously camp and genius comic humor which made them both much loved national treasures.…
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HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
David France’s meticulously detailed account is how an angry and fiercely committed group of selfless people refused to lie down and play dead and by taking on both the pharmaceutical industry and Government institutions, they made a real difference and saved countless live. This is of course the story of the AIDS epidemic which brought…
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EVERYDAY
A new movie from acclaimed British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom is always a highly anticipated event for avid cinephiles, and even when like ‘TRISHNA’ his last one, they are far from perfect they are still streets ahead of so many other independent movies. And an added joy is the fact that one is never sure what…
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QUEEN TO PLAY
I have always loved how French movie makers stretch their imaginations when it comes to dealing with ‘amour’, but using an obsession with chess to help a repressed housewife rekindle her sexuality was just a tad too far fetched for me. Helene is a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in Corsica and after a putting…
