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Don’t Call Me Son
Anna Muylaert the Brazilian writer/director of last year’s rather sublime drama the multi-award winning The Second Mother, returns to the theme of family dynamics with her latest movie, as she explores the reality of parental/child relationships which cannot conform to everyone’s expectations and perceptions. This is the story of Pierre (Namoi Nero) a free-spirited teenager who plays…
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Jean Alexander : the legendary ‘Hilda Ogden’ dies
The whole of the U.K. is in deep mourning today, and anybody in then rest of the civilized world that was deprived from watching Coronation Street the world’s longest running TV soap opera will not understand why. The actress Jean Alexander who played the quintessential British working class legendary heroine Hilda Ogden for 23 years until…
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Christine
The tragic event of 29 years old news reporter Christine Chubbock who very dramatically blew her brains out live on local TV in Sarasota back in 1974 is a well-recorded incident that is hard to forget. However, what is not known at all is what could have possibly happened in Christine’s life that was so very dire…
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Dancer
The very first thing you notice about the young Ukrainian ballet superstar Sergei Polunin is his deep set of piercing eyes which somehow seem to unnerve him as much as the people he stares at. He cuts a striking figure shirtless displaying a profusion of tattoos and his taut sinewy body with perfect abs clad…
