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COMPLIANCE
Sandra a rather harried middle-aged manager of a ‘Chickwich’ fast food restaurant in (god-forsaken) Ohio is rallying her troop of very young workers before the busy Friday night shift. She’s short-handed and also low on supplies after someone had left the Freezer door ajar overnight. It’s going to be a tough night. An hour later…
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THE MASTER
Freddie Quell is a real mess. After being discharged from the US Navy where he served in the Pacific Fleet in WW2 he has serious psychological issues and a fierce short-fused temper that will not allow him to adapt back into civilian life at all, and so he drifts from job to job until one…
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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
From the photo on the poster showing a rather stunned Sean Penn ‘dragged up’ as a lookalike of The Cure’s Robert Smith you sense that there is another superlative performance in store in a potentially fascinating new movie. But nothing is ever what it first seems, and the masterful Penn playing Cheyenne a bored and depressed…
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Anna Karenina
Even though this is the 25th time that Tolstoy’s classic novel has been brought to the screen, I think this is the first version that I have ever seen. The latest rendition has been re-written by leading playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, and I gather it sticks closely to the original plot even though he’s squeezed it into 2 hours. (Thank…
