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ZERO DARK THIRTY
This is one of these stories in which we know the beginning and the end, but the decade that passes in between which sees ‘history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man’ is still a helluva shocker. The opening scene of the movie is a totally black screen with excepts of the last telephone…
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Casino Jack
Jack Abramoff was one of the most successful political Lobbyists in Washington. He was also a brazen swindler and an egotistical crook who was illegally bank-rolling seemingly half the Republican Party (and a few Democrats too) ostensibly to further his Client’s ‘causes’, but in reality the money he stole from all of them primarily lined…
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NOT FADE AWAY
The most wonderful element of David Chase’s coming-of-age drama set in the 1960’s is the glorious music. This is the time when The Beatles started finding success and the world was also discovering the likes of The Rolling Stones. Douglas an American/Italian geeky high school kid in New Jersey gets invited by his best…
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THE HOTTEST STATE
Most of us in life have to just simply pick ourselves up and get over it on our own when our hearts are broken for the first time. Ethan Hawke however went one better and wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about his own heartbreak and then adapted it into a movie that he also directed and acted…
