5 min movie guide
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THE COMPANY MEN
The company in question is in fact a corporation called GTX which once made things that were real like ships but now it just makes money, bucket loads of it. And it did this very well until the credit crunch of 2008 happened and suddenly everyone started to feel the pinch. Evidently the stockholders felt…
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Blue Valentine
Last January at my first Sundance I discovered movie fatigue. Well, that’s what I thought at the time when I came out of a screening of ‘Blue Valentine’ extremely under whelmed, yet seemingly everyone else there was raving (!) about the film. Flash forward to now when the movie is on the big screen at the…
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Biutiful
If I were a member of the Academy I would give the Best Actor gong to Javier Bardem for his heart-wrenching performance as Uxebel in ‘Biutiful’. It’s not that I do not appreciate Mr. Firth’s stunning stammering turn which will inevitably get him the Oscar, its just watching Mr. Bardem intriguingly peel back all the…
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Another Year
Tom and Gerri have been together since they met at University and now, nearing retirement age, are that rare breed of being a truly happily married couple. In their idyllic life, which seems to revolve a lot around gardening together, their geniality makes them a magnet for some very unhappy people. There is Ken an…
