5 min movie guide
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Demolition
From the opening scenes when Mitchell Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife Julia (Heather Lind) are bickering whilst driving in New York traffic when their car gets suddenly sideswiped killing Julia, we are on edge expecting more trauma at any moment. As Davis goes into a state of shock he has no idea how to…
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I Saw The Light
There is only one good reason (well, maybe two) to sit through the long drawn out and rather tedious biopic of the very short life of singer/songwriter Hank Williams, and that is because of its star Tim Hiddleston. He puts in a powerhouse of a performance and is nothing less than magnetic in this overly long…
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Cemetery of Splendour
It has been six years since Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul swooped the Palme D’or at Cannes for his beguiling movie ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’, and now he is back with another mystical tale that is heavy on fantasy, and very light on an actual narrative. The filmmaker himself has actually described this film as being…
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City of Gold
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert’s very affectionate portrait of the L.A. Times celebrated food critic Jonathan Gold is as upbeat and sunny as this Pulitzer winner’s own writing. The movie’s focus is very much on how this native Los Angeleno has an inexhaustible passion for rooting out unlikely culinary delights and then singing their praises, and we…
