5 min movie guide
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RABBIT HOLE
Becca and Howie are very happily married, successful and have rather a charmed life, which is shattered when their only child, a 4-year-old boy, chases his dog into the street and is killed by an oncoming car. 8 months later they are still trying to come to terms with his death and find ways to…
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FOUR LIONS
This rather wonderfully insane movie is about 5 bumbling idiotic Moslem would-be terrorists, with a combined IQ of about 100, who decide that they want to be martyrs for the ‘Cause.’ They can’t agree as to exactly what that is or indeed how they should go about it, but they are intent on making a…
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Animal Kingdom
The opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick him up…
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Casino Jack and the United States of Money
A fascinating documentary that tracked the rise and fall of the powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff who at one time was funneling huge funds to help bank roll most of the Republican Party’s key players and a few minor Democrats too. It was ill-gained money that he wrangled out of Indian Tribes and the Government of…
