5 min movie guide
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THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE
Time for Dominic Cooper to step up the plate to be the leading man in a movie, and instead of choosing yet another of his nice romantic guys roles he elects to play one of the most horrible men of the last few decades Uday Hussein, son of the Iraqi dictator. And if that is…
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SHAME
Brandon is a handsome successful Manhattanite in his 30’s; great apartment, great clothes, a well paying high-flying job, and judging by his physical shape, a good gym membership too. Yet beneath his public persona of a cool façade he is a compulsive sex addict who spends every waking minute of his day trying to find…
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THE DEEP BLUE SEA
This is the work of the two Terences. The auteur filmmaker Terence Davies who’s uncompromising style has greatly restricted his output to just five features films sporadically over 23 years has put his own take on Terence Rattigan’s acclaimed post-WW2 play that hit a raw nerve when it was first staged in London in the…
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MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
In the early 1950’s Laurence Oliver and Vivian Leigh (his wife at the time) enjoyed a great success in London West End’s starring in a new play by Terrence Rattigan called ‘The Sleeping Prince’. It told the story of a young actress who meets and ultimately captivates a Prince. Marilyn Monroe bought the film rights…
