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queerguru reviews Kedi
queerguru reviews Turkish filmmaker Ceyda Torun wonderful new documentary on the street cats of Istanbul. What had originally enticed Torun, a native of the city, was that for the largely Muslim population, the uniqueness of how street cats are treated is in fact not too dissimilar to how cows are honored in India. Certainly what…
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Miami : It’s All About Sex at O Cinema
Miami’s leading movie Art House O Cinema has very catholic tastes, and not the religious kind, As well as screening the best eclectic indie movies that have made them a crucial destination in the city’s hip Wynwood district, they are also not adverse to getting down and dirty sometimes too. Next week, starting Friday…
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The Zookeeper’s Wife
For her latest starring role the twice Oscar Nominated actress Jessica Chastain has ignored the old Hollywood adage ‘never work with animals and children‘ in this highly emotional biopic set in WW2. Chastain plays a real life character Antonina Żabiński, who with her husband Jan (Flemish actor Johan Heldenbergh) run the Warsaw Zoo which they turn…
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A Million Happy Nows
This is a one of those rather glorious no-holds-barred weepy melodramas that Hollywood would have termed as a ‘women’s picture’ in the good old days. It still is in a sense, but for entirely different reasons. This time the romantic pair at the centre of this rather wonderful sad tale are lesbians. It is the…
