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I’m So Excited
From Pedro Almodovar, the undisputed king of high camp and high drama, comes this rather silly spoof of an airplane disaster movie : although in truth the only catastrophes that will befall any of the passengers are the results of the chaotic lives that they have temporary fled from on the ground. The action is…
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A Finished Life : The Goodbye & No Regrets Tour
Gregg Cour is a 48 year old gay man with AIDS who, after being HIV+ for half of his life has decided that he simply does not want to start yet a new regime of different medications. As he explains, after a while the body comesimmune to drugs taken continually and hence the need to…
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STORIES WE TELL
Canadian actress turned filmmaker Sarah Polley turns the camera on her own family and friends for this fascinating documentary which could have also been titled ‘All About My Mother’. To tell her story Polley has enlisted her interview subjects that she calls ‘The Storytellers’ to help piece together the life of her mother Diane Polley…
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Crutch
Poor sixteen year old David is really on his own. His father has left the family home to live with his mistress which means his alcoholic mother now stops hiding the drink and just gets off her face every day; his elder brother moves out and in with his girlfriend, and his younger sister never comes home.…
