5 min movie guide
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SLEEPWALK WITH ME
Matt Pandamglio desperately wants to be a stand up comedian but his lame material sucks so bad that he gets booed off the few rather sad gigs he can muster. He’s in total denial not just about his ‘career’ but also about his struggling relationship with Abby his vivacious girlfriend, but when he actually starts…
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ROBOT & FRANK
The opening scenes show a cat burglar breaking into a house in the middle of a night, and as he scans the room with his flashlight he spies a photograph which he picks up to examine before he drops it and it smashes on the ground. Frank has broken into his own house and the…
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KEEP THE LIGHTS ON
This is a very tender and realistic story that plots a loving relationship between two very likable guys in Manhattan through all it’s highs and lows over a decade starting in 1998. There were sadly more of the latter but this well made movie’s particular take was both honest and refreshing, and the fact that…
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Canal Street Madam
I guess you could call Jeannette Maier a lucky Madam, as unlike Deborah Jeanne Palfrey the so called DC Madam, for when the FBI raided her New Orleans Brothel in 2005 she just lost her livelihood but not her life. In this fascinating documentary on the life of the media-dubbed ‘Canal Street Madam’ what comes shining through is the very…
