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Barbara
Christian Petzold’s latest thriller is set in 1980 in the ‘bad old days’ of East Germany when everybody was totally paranoid as seemingly everyone was being watched. Even the watchers themselves. Barbara, a real cold fish, is a Doctor who has been banished from Berlin for some unspecified misdemeanor and forced by the Authorities to…
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MY FIRST WAR
In 2006 at the start of the Second Lebanon War, Tel Aviv film school graduate Yariv Mozer was called up as Army Reservist Officer to serve at the Front. He decided to take his video camera along with the idea that over the next few weeks he would taping how the war progressed but he…
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MANHUNT
Greg Barker’s new movie ‘MANHUNT’ could easily be described as the documentary tale behind Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent ‘ZERO DARK 30’ Oscar nominated movie with a little more backroom detail thrown in. Back in 1993, a team of top female CIA analysts known as ‘The Sisterhood’ were the first to identify evidence that a terrorist group known…
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TOUCHY FEELY
I could really sum up director Lynn Shelton’s latest and her least likable movie in one word : annoying. She squanders her reputation (‘Humpday’ and ‘Your Sister’s Sister) and an excellent cast (including Ellen Page, Alison Janney & Josh Pais) on this embarrassingly unfunny comedy that went down like a lead balloon when it premiered at…
