5 min movie guide
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WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
This powerful new documentary by Davis Guggenheim (Oscar Winner for ‘An Inconvenient Truth’) contends that the American educational service is failing, and failing badly. Something we have heard many times before but usually from rabid aspiring politicians bandying around their own distorted dogma whilst seeking to get one over their opponents. However Mr. Guggenheim is…
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SOLITARY MAN
Ben Kalman’s life has finally caught up with him. He’s lost his once successful car dealership by cutting corners; he cheated on his wife and disappointed their daughter; he is cheating on his current girl friend who he is only dating cos her father can help him set up a new business, and after charming…
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RINCO'S RESTAURANT
Rinco, a young Japanese girl, runs away from home (and when you catch sight of her mother you soon know why), and she is bought up by her odd but nice grandmother who instills in her a real passion for cooking. So much so that by the time Granny dies she scrapes together enough money…
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NOWHERE BOY
At 8 30 am on a bitterly cold January morning in Park City, Utah I sat clutching my Starbucks watching a wonderful period piece movie when the teacher on screen bawled out a name and then I suddenly remembered why we had decided to make this film part of our Sundance schedule. It was Nowhere…
