5 min movie guide
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J EDGAR
J Edgar Hoover ran the FBI as his personal fiefdom with a rod of iron for almost 50 years. He used his great position of power as the nations’ lead Investigator to compile secret files on all the most powerful men (and women) in this country, and it was these files that were alleged to…
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LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA
In the intro to my Blog I state that my preferred choice of movies are the ones that are ‘as weird as possible’. And I do sit through a lot of them. However I have just come across one that may even stand out as the most bizarre to date. From 1989 comes this movie…
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WISHFUL DRINKING
This is Carrie Fisher’s take on own her life to date: highly edited and mined deeply to extort as many laughs as she can from stories that must have seemed anything but funny when it actually happened. The daughter of movie star Debbie Reynolds and hit crooner Eddie Fisher whose traumatic marriage, divorce and re-marriages…
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UMA THURMAN GET ANOTHER AGENT, PLEASE.
As most of the movies I chose to watch are quite serious and some times heavy going, (the next movie on my viewing list is ‘Benda Billi’ : a doc about 5 African paraplegics who start up a Band), I do occasionally feel the need for a quick fix of some funny light relief. This…
