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I GIVE IT A YEAR
This new British romantic comedy from the Producers of the 1994 surprise mega-hit ‘Four Weddings & A Funeral’ starts where usually most others end i.e. with a lavish Church wedding. After a fairly whirlwind courtship laid-back novelist Josh is marrying high-flying brand consultant Nat much to the slight disbelief of several of their friends and…
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
In the same year that the UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company films a live performance of ‘Much Ado’ at The Globe Theatre in London is there really a need for yet another movie of this classic comedy? After seeing Joss Whedon’s exhilarating contemporary version, the answer is a very definite ‘yes’! Writer/director Whedon best known for ‘Buffy…
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The Wishmakers
This low-budget romantic comedy is about three college friends who spend a summer living together in West Hollywood. Two of them are openly gay, while the third, whilst the third who is obviously a big old queen, claims to be a bi-sexual. They all throw a penny into a fountain and make a wish for what…
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Wallowitch & Ross : This Moment
This overlooked wee gem of a documentary from 1999 is the story of two very talented performing artists, now in their 70’s, whose rather charmed life was essentially well-kept secret outside the Cabaret rooms of Manhattan. John Wallowitch was a classical pianist and prolific popular songwriter who met Bertram Ross in the 1960’s when he…
