5 min movie guide
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Peter and John
Peter and John, a period costume drama set in Nantucket in I827, is loosely based on a novel by the 19th Century French author Guy de Maupassant. It’s an odd time in the island’s history as the Civil War has just ended and many of the residents are now struggling financially since the whaling industry…
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Samba
After the unprecedented success of ‘The Intouchables’ in 2011 which went on to become France’s second biggest grossing movie of all time, filmmaking duo Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano reunite with their Cesar Winning actor Omar Sy for a new drama/rom-com about un-documented immigration which is a very thorny topic especially in France. Sy plays Samba Cissé a migrant…
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A Lego Brickumentary
As interesting as Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Daniel Junge and his co-director Oscar nominated Kief Davidson make this profile on the world’s most famous toy unless you are a AFOL (or a KFOL) you’ll find this a little too insular for your own good. Sure, they do a great job telling how this invention decades in…
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My Leftover Ladies
In China the word ‘Sheng nu’ means ‘leftover women’ and is a derogatory term made popular by the All-China Women’s Federation that classifies women who remain unmarried after they are 28 years old. It’s part of the pressure that their society place on women to conform and accept that marriage is the only goal they…
