5 min movie guide
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PLEASE REMOVE YOUR SHOES
If you are a frequent air traveller, then you may want to think twice about wanting to see this movie. I don’t think any of us are enamored with the pantomime we have to endure with before we can board a plane these days, particularly as few of us are convinced that they effectively make…
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KILL LIST
I was persuaded to go out of my cinematic comfort zone to go see a new indie horror movie: a genre that I really loathe. This British one, the second feature directed by Ben Wheatley from a script he co-wrote with his wife Amy Jump had garnered rave reviews that included ‘The most original, unsettling…
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EL BULLI : COOKING IN PROGRESS
El Bulli was a Michelin 3 Star Restaurant on the Catalonian coast of Spain that was the height of excess. Its chef and co-owner Ferran Adria turned what was an unpretentious seaside café into a holy grail for the most serious of foodies. The extremely creative and self-assured Adria led a team of some 42…
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VODKA LEMON
There is bleak, and then there is Armenia. It was that first country to secede when the USSR broke up, and although it gained independence, rural Armenia kept its poverty. In the south, the land is a blanket of slow each long harsh winter where the daily temperature hovers between -5 and -10C. The opening scene of…
