5 min movie guide
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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
From the photo on the poster showing a rather stunned Sean Penn ‘dragged up’ as a lookalike of The Cure’s Robert Smith you sense that there is another superlative performance in store in a potentially fascinating new movie. But nothing is ever what it first seems, and the masterful Penn playing Cheyenne a bored and depressed…
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Anna Karenina
Even though this is the 25th time that Tolstoy’s classic novel has been brought to the screen, I think this is the first version that I have ever seen. The latest rendition has been re-written by leading playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, and I gather it sticks closely to the original plot even though he’s squeezed it into 2 hours. (Thank…
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SHADOW DANCER
This political /crime drama is set in 1990s Belfast, and when Colette McVeigh an active member of the IRA is caught red-handed planting a bomb at an London Underground Station she is ‘persuaded’ to become an informant for the MI5 in order not just to remain free but to protect her young son’s welfare. Her…
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Arbitrage
It feels like life has turned upside down when you are watching yet another smooth Wall Street operator perpetuate a multi-million fraud to save his own bacon, yet somehow even as he digs in deeper, you actually want him to get away with it. Robert Miller, the suave debonair banker in this instance, is also cheating on his…
