5 min movie guide
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Zipper
Actor Patrick Wilson could pass for disgraced ex New York Governor Eliot Spitzer if the lighting was just right, but this rather clumsy drama that is either based or inspired by Spitzer’s downfall, just couldn’t ever be mistaken for the real thing. Wilson plays Sam Ellis who is a Federal prosecutor who is on the…
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Aloft
There is an intriguing opening to this very disjointed tale of mystic healing that never ceases to leave you feel anything other than baffled right up to the final credits even though that was clearly never really the intention of Peruvian writer/director Claudia Llosa. At the beginning we follow Nana begging for a lift in the…
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Pervert Park
Scandinavian filmmaking couple Frida & Lasse Barkfors made a somewhat bizarre choice for this, their debut documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award. They opted to paint a very humanized picture of a halfway house for convicted sex offenders in Florida. Surprisingly they achieved it quite perfectly with…
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Eden
French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love’s new movie is a love story of the music of a generation where the plot and people involved really do take a back seat. Right from the opening scene set in 1992 in Parisian suburbs where another illicit rave scene party is taking place in an old deserted fort where they…
