5 min movie guide
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Menashe
Documentary filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein’s feature film directing debut is an intriguing project that is not just based on a real story, but it actually stars the subject himself who has never actually acted before, and it all makes for such compelling viewing. Menashe (Menashe Lustig) is an Hassidic Jew who has been widowed…
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The Lonely Italian
This oddball hybrid of movie is part documentary and part fictional comedy that tries desperately hard to milk ever ounce of humor in an awkward parody of online dating. The central figure in the Lonely Italian is Domenico Nesci an Italian TV & Radio host who also once starred in two MTV Reality Shows “That’s Amore”…
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Genius
The genius that the title of this new biopic refers too is the legendary American writer of the early 20th Century Thomas Wolfe who published four lengthy major novels before he died tragically at the age of 38. The movie starts at the point where his yet unpublished first book has been rejected by…
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Patti Cake$
So often when you hear about the frantic bidding wars that burn the midnight oil at Sundance as studios scramble to sign up the latest over-hyped movie, it always ends in tears. Seems like every year when a new record price is paid the Studio then struggles to make a profit, and in the cases…
