5 min movie guide
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THE ARTIST
I’m still reeling from the shock that I have just left my local Multiplex Theater where the crowds were out in full force for the latest ‘Mission Impossible’ blockbuster and another ‘Sherlock Holmes’ flick, yet my screen had a sold-out house even though it was playing a French Black & White Silent Movie, and as…
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009)
Mikael Blomkvist is a middle-aged investigative journalist who has 6 months of freedom before a beginning a prison sentence for libel against a Swedish tycoon. He is hired by an elderly billionaire named Henrik Vanger who inhabits a stark mansion on a remote island and broods about the loss of his beloved niece Harriet. She…
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THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
Henry an American, is a drug dealer doing his rounds one night in the streets of Montreal answering his constantly ringing cellphone whilst trying to look for road signs. He inadvertently turns into a one-way street going the wrong way and runs over Natalie a pregnant woman having contractions who’s desperately looking for a Cab…
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SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN
Evidently amongst all the other things that the Chinese can claim to have invented/created we can also add BFF as in Best Friends Forever. Back in the 19th Century a woman having a ‘laotong’ was an embedded social custom that bound two friends. known as ‘sisters’, by a written contract and according to the account…
