5 min movie guide
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CORIOLANUS
If I had one regret about by youth (!) it would be that I never really studied enough Shakespeare in school, which is so sad as his incomparable prose just sings. Especially when it is performed as well as in actor/director Ralph Fiennes’s new modern-day take on Coriolanus : yet another of Will’s plays that…
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A Dangerous Method
This should have been subtitled ‘all you need to know about how psychoanalysis was first created when Freud & Jung decided all our behavioral ‘problems’ were based on sexual hang-ups’. Of course in David Cronenberg’s movie, almost drowning in dialogue, the psycho-babble between these two great men in particular gives a much more refined take than I do on this…
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PRAIRIE LOVE
A man we only know as ‘The Vagrant’ is driving his beaten up wreck of a station wagon across North Dakota’s frozen tundra he’s dressed head to toe in fur lined clothes that we can hardly make out his face. He chances upon a broken down truck in the middle of nowhere and its owner…
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THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
When a disparate group of middle-class Brits discover that their limited pensions will not provide them with much of a retirement they abandon their homeland and get enticed by some advertisements for THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, which lays claims to a luxurious sanctuary for “the elderly and beautiful” in Jaipur, India. The seven of…
