5 min movie guide
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20th Century Women
Writer/director Mike Mills is revisiting his own family history again as the source for his latest movie. It served him well last time when in ‘Beginners’ he told the story of his father who came out as gay when he was 75 years old, garnering an Oscar for Christopher Plummer. This time around Mills’s focus…
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Rules Don’t Apply
It’s been 15 years since Hollywood legend Warren Beatty was last seen on our screens, and a further 3 years since he was also in the directors chair too. Now he is back with a passion project of his that he has been evidently gestating for decades, so much so that is in fact he…
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
There are very few filmmakers who consistently produce sure-fire hits with every movie they make like the two-time Oscar winner Ang Lee, but even he is seems is not completely infallible. His latest one boasts the very latest experimental technology that affects how we see it all but somehow it seems like that it is at the expense…
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Elle
The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that…
