5 min movie guide
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The Newspaperman : The Life & Times of Ben Bradlee
We’ll be hearing a great deal this winter about the legendary Editor of the Washington Post who was largely credited with taking down President Richard Nixon in 1974 as Ben Bradlee is the focus of two major movies. In January he’ll be portrayed by Tom Hanks in The Post a fictionalized account of the Watergate…
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Happy End
If you are at all familiar with the work of the two-time Oscar nominated Austrian filmmaker Michael Hanake then you will know that the very last thing he ever gives us is a happy end. This new movie of his, essentially a rather disparate domestic melodrama that focuses on a wealthy bourgeois dysfunctional family living…
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Voyeur
Filmmakers Myles Kayne and Josh Koury’s new documentary is the rather squalid tale of a suburban Colorado motel owner who spied on his guests for decades, then invited the distinguished writer Gay Talese to share the story with the rest of the world. The story actually goes back to the 1960’s when Gerald Foos hit…
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The Other Side of Hope
Its been a long six years since he directed his last movie Le Havre, but the wait was well worth it as Aki Kaurismäki has just released The Other Side of Hope another truly wonderful piece of escapism that is peppered with a more than the usual dose of realism to. The Finnish auteur…
