5 min movie guide
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WIN WIN
After seeing the trailer, I had dismissed this movie as just another feel-good sitcom until I spotted its pedigree. It being the third feature film from writer/director Tom McCarthy who scored sleeper hits with ‘The Last Station Agent’ and ‘The Visitor’ which I both really enjoyed and admired. Hence I found myself in the movie…
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Bill Cunningham New York
The reason that I sit in a movie theater as often as I do is my eternal hope that every movie I watch will be so near perfect that it will just blow me away. In reality it’s a rarity, but tonight was one such occasion. Watching ‘Bill Cunningham New York’, a wonderful moving and…
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SMASH HIS CAMERA
When this movie surfaced in Sundance in 2010 it caused such a buzz that I was somewhat annoyed that we couldn’t fit it into our viewing schedule. It went on to win the Best Documentary Directing Award for filmmaker Leon Gast. So it was with heightened eager anticipation when I finally got the chance this…
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ORANGES AND SUNSHINE
From the late 1940’s up to 1970 the British Government surreptitiously ‘deported’ 130000 children placed in their care to Australia for reasons I still cannot fathom. This movie is the true story of how Margaret Humphreys, a Social Worker from Nottingham, uncovered the scandal, and almost single-handedly and against overwhelming odds and even threats against…
