5 min movie guide
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CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP
In 2010 NBC TV summarily fired ‘Tonight Show’ Host Conan O’Brien after just 7 months in the job order to rescue the sinking career of his predecessor Jay Leno who had bombed in his new early Show. O’Brien had previously hosted his own Late Night Show that started at midnight for the previous 16 years…
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50/50
It’s tough making a comedy about a young man (Adam) who discovers he has a rare form of cancer with only a 50% chance of survival. This heartfelt attempt is derived from the true story of David Reiser, who wrote the screenplay and based it on his real-life friendship with comic actor Seth Rogan…
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TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
We Brits don’t usually like our treasured classics tempered with especially by foreigners (God forbid!) so I approached this new re-make of John Le Carrie’s consummate thriller ‘Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy’ with caution. This old-school spy story set in the scary Cold War period in the 1960’s which has more than a hint of truth…
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LIFE 2 :0
For the people who just do not like the life that they have ended up with, there is now another way out. They can join the 20 million people who have become ‘Second Lifer’s’ and create their own avatar in a cyber make-believe world where they can be anything/body they want. Jason Spingarn-Koff’s morbidly curious documentary…
