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Triple 9
From John Hillcoat the Australian filmmaker who gave us the enthralling apocalyptic thriller The Road comes a new modern day heist movie about a bunch of corrupt Atlanta cops and ex-soldiers who are about to pull off one last job for the Russian-Israeli Mafia. The gang’s leader Michael Atwood (a terrific Chiwetel Ejiofor) is pulled up…
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Son of Saul
Just when you may have felt that there could be nothing more new to say about the Holocaust comes one the most powerfully disturbing movies ever that plunge you into the abysses of hell from the very first scene. This brilliant new movie is the debut feature written and directed by Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes that…
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Race
This new crowd-pleaser biopic of African/American athletic hero Jesse Owens sees his troubled world through rose colored glasses (even the Nazis running the 1936 Olympics are not THAT bad ) as it fore-mostly focuses on his remarkable achievements of winning 4 Gold Medals, with the political ramifications taking second place. The movie starts with the teenage Owens leaving Alabama and his…
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Touched by Fire
Writer/director Paul Dalio’s mesmerizing new drama about a young couple of manic depressives who fall in and out of love takes on a whole new sense of meaning when you appreciate that he has had his own similar struggles being bi-polar. This heartbreaking tale is of two good looking poets : Carla has published a…
