5 min movie guide
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THE VOW
Luck is unpredictable. Take this weekend, when on Friday 13th I became a US Citizen (outstanding good luck) and then on Saturday and Sunday I saw back to back movies starring Channing Tatum (exceptional bad luck). Ex male stripper/fashion model/dancer Mr Tatum got his big break as a disadvantaged dancer in ‘Step Up’ and has…
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MAGIC MIKE
There is no magic or tricks of any kind in this extremely disappointing monotonous flick about a bunch of male strippers in Florida that much respected filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has obviously made for pubescent teenage girls. (And maybe very bored housewives) Starring pretty boy Channing Tatum who with his all American boy look proves he…
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Beyond The Walls aka Hors Les Murs
This unexpected and rather remarkable new film from first time writer/director David Lambert (that I discovered by accident) realistically scrutinizes the intimate details of the rise and fall of an edgy gay relationship, devoid of stereotypes. It premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the Critics Week (picking upan Award) and most of the Reviewers then made a point…
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TO ROME WITH LOVE
Unlike fellow American filmmaker Roman Polanski, Woody Allen’s ‘exile’ in Europe is self imposed and no doubt encouraged by the fact that the Europeans worship them far more as celebrated auteurs than in their own country. Unlike Polanski who goes out of his way to pretend that his movies are filmed in the US, Allen’s…
