5 min movie guide
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QUEEN OF HEARTS
It’s not often that the main character of a movie is so annoying that I just want to slap her legs hard in the hope that she will stop being so irritating, but this is one such case. And in fact now I think about the rest of the cast, I would probably want to slap…
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TYRANNOSAUR
Joseph is a tormented self-destructive and angry drunken old man whose sad life seems one violent episode after another. One day he runs into a Charity Thrift Store to avoid a mob and encounters Hannah the Manager, who as devout Christian. offers to pray for him. On a subsequent visit he soon discovers that Hannah’s…
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Mr. Nice
Howard Marks was a drug smuggler who, when on the run as a Wanted Criminal, stole the identity of a Denis Nice. And according to this entertaining biopic based on his life it was a very appropriate name for him as everybody (except the police and customs officials) seemed to love this rather charming and outgoing fun-loving…
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MELANCHOLIA
This movie starts out with a stunning long visual prologue played out to the sound of Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde that sets the tone of this powerfully dramatic story told in two parts named after two sisters. The first is Justine, who is a severely disturbed and melancholic bride, struggling to get through the lavish…
