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  • ROMEOS

    There are all sorts of ‘Romeos’ in this very innovative and somewhat daring tale about gender identity that is about how very tough it can be just being one’s self. The setting is a couple of dormitories in Koln, Germany where young adults are based to do a year of social studies. The film opens…

  • RUBY SPARKS

    Calvin, a rather geeky 29 year old, wrote a bestselling novel that some critics compared to ‘Catcher in the Rye’ when he was just 19.  Since then he’s had writer’s block and the same lack of success with his love life too.  He fills each of his days either on his Shrink’s couch or out…

  • MOSQUITA Y MARI

    This a cute latino coming-of-age story. Set in L.A.’s predominately immigrant Huntington Park area it tells of two Mexican teenage girls who become neighbors.  One of them Yolanda, who’s nickname is Mosquita, is a good girl who lives in a nice home with hard-working pushy parents who are proud of their daughter who gets straight…

  • EASY MONEY

    Although I no longer watch any TV programs at all, even I know that ‘The Killing’ has been a hit series on both sides of the Atlantic.  Although naturally the US were not content with Danish original so they shot an American version.  Into this they cast Joel Kinnaman as a sullen scruffy Detective, and…