5 min movie guide
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Humor Me
For Sam Hoffman’s feature film writing/directing debut Humor Me he valiantly attempted to build on his very successful web series (and book) Old Jews Telling Jokes with very mixed results. What he ended up with is a family comedy that older Jewish audiences will lap up, but others will sadly find rather lame at best. This is…
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Crooked House
Gilles Paquet-Brenner‘s take on Agatha Christie’s novel Crooked House with a script by Julian Fellows (Downton Abbey) and a rather wonderfully starry cast with some campy performances, and filmed on location in the stately Hughenden Manor, had all the ingredients for being a far better movie than it was. Despite all these elements it had…
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Get Out
Horror movies are not something you will find reviewed on these pages very often at all as frankly it is a movie genre we loathe and tend to avoid them as often as we can. We did naturally have to make an exception for Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ which we have been extremely curious…
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The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s flawless adult fairy tale is unquestionably one of the most enchanting screen romances of the year. This story of the demure mute cleaning woman who finds a kindred spirit in the merman creature whom she rescues from the secret Government laboratory where she works, is a joyous tale of hope and love…
