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First Period
Extrovert 15 year old Cassie has just moved to a new town with her mother and has set herself a goal to be most popular girl in school before she hits sixteen and becomes a ‘real’ woman. She’s only got a week until that happens so she has got her work out but that doesn’t…
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An Honest Liar
Born in 1928, when he reached the ripe old age of 17 James (The Amazing) Randi ran away from home to join the circus as he wanted to become a escape artist like The Great Houdini. By all accounts from this engrossing new documentary on his life by filmmakers Tyler Measom & Justin Weinstein he eventually…
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Alive Inside
I cannot remember exactly how social worker Dan Cohen came across his amazing discovery but what we can see from this heart-warming documentary about him putting it in to practice is the undisguised joy from all the people who are reaping from his ‘invention’. Cohen established that elderly hospitalized patients numbed the cruel ravages of…
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Compared To What? : The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank.
When husband and wife filmmakers Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler first approached the Democratic Congressman for Massachusetts with the idea of making a documentary about him they just envisioned that it would simply cover his last year in Office prior to his retirement. They quickly discovered that there was a whole wealth of history and stories…
