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SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
There is no surprise as to what this new rom-com is about as the title says it all. Literally. Based on Paul Today’s best selling novel the movie comes across as Hollywood’s patronizing way of saying that some Arabs are really quite nice people, even in they waste their new found wealth of silly harmless things.…
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3
3 is really about 1 who wants both the other 2 who are not sure what they want. In Tom Twyker’s sophisticated amusing (but not very funny) comedy a reasonably good looking couple in their 40’s in Berlin are bored with their successful lives and with each other. She is the host of a pseudo…
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MARLEY
Ziggy Marley is hailing academy Award winning Director Kevin MacDonald’s new movie as the definitive film of the life and music of his father Bob Marley. And he’s probably right. The extended family of the legendary Jamaican musician and Rastafarian co-operated fully with the making of the movie which gave McDonald access to both people…
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MY JOY
‘Schastye Moe’ is the original name for this ultra-bleak Russian movie and somehow something got lost in the translation, as no way can it be called My Joy (or anyone else’s joy for that matter). Tough to fathom out, its actually a series of single scenarios, some that have a linking thread, and others that…
