5 min movie guide
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Spectre
As always the latest James Bond movie is exceedingly silly and outrageously excessively over-the-top and exactly like Daniel Craig himself, we swear this may be the very last one we will indulge ourselves in, knowing full well it certainly will not. Back in the directors chair for a second time, Sam Mendes makes sure…
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Macbeth
Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s starts his awe-inspiring take on Shakespeare’s most violent tale of Macbeth on the battlefield on the mist-drenched Scottish heath that he stages dramatically like an epic, but bloody opera. It sets the pace for what turns out to be one of the most enthralling adaptions of the Bards work on the…
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Life
In 1955 the actor James Dean has just completed his first starring role in Elia Kazan’s “East of Eden” and although the movie had not premiered yet, Warner Brothers Studio knew that when the film was released he would become a major star. Most of all Dean himself knew this and as part of his…
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Phoenix
As WW2 ends German former nightclub singer Nelly is shot as she leaves Auschwitz and her face is severely disfigured. When she arrives back home to a war-torn Berlin, her best friend Lene takes control and whisks her off to see the best plastic surgeon money can buy. With all her Jewish family now dead…
