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  • THE ACT OF KILLING

    The subject of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiercely compelling documentary is definitely one of the most evil and sadistic acts of genocide that I have ever seen on the silver screen.  It tells some of the stories of the Indonesian death squads of the mid 1960’s who tortured and killed over one million ‘communists’ at the behest…

  • UNREAL

    What starts out as yet another reality TV show which follows three 20 year-old-something couples who have just broken up and are about to enter the dating scene again, turns into something a little more complex.  At first some of them seem a tad uncomfortable having their own camera crew tag behind them 24/7 (but…

  • MUSEUM HOURS

    There is very little plot in this intriguing wee movie from writer/director Jem Cohen although it is billed as a drama. Essentially it is this. Anne, a middle-aged Canadian woman, rushes off to Vienna after she gets a call that a distant cousin of hers who has no other family is in a coma.  In…

  • 56 UP

    Director Michael Apted’s outstanding series of movies that, at seven year intervals, has been revisiting the same 14 English children/adults since they were seven years old in 1964 is an extraordinary anthropological study that shows that life never turns out as we expect.  The subjects that he chose came from all different social backgrounds in a…