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  • THE KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND

    My, those Norwegians can be a dour and scary lot!  This movie based on a true story is set in Bastoy a reform school set on a remote island, which is like Alcatraz, but for kids.  The place is where ‘maladjusted’ boys aged 11 to 18 are ‘sensible and forcibly turned into useful Christian boys’…

  • CODEPENDENT LESBIAN ALIEN SEEKS SAME

    As the title suggests this is a very campy take on all those wonderfully dreadful Sci-Fi ‘B’ Movies.  The Aliens are convinced that their over-active emotions will destroy the ozone of their planet and the only way around this is go to earth and have their hearts broken.   One Alien finds a lesbian stationary clerk…

  • THE HOUSE OF TOLERANCE aka L'APOLLONIDE

    This rather bizarre movie from renowned French director Bertrand Bonello is set in a high end Brothel in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century and is essentially a series of tableaus of near naked woman lounging around as if they are about to be painted.  The house is stunning and the girls are…

  • THE TIME THAT REMAINS

    The movie starts with the invasion of Palestine by the Israeli Army in 1948 and what follows is a very highly personalized account by an Arab Israeli of how life has continued there since then.  Most of the story is about filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s parents, and tell how his father’s resistance to the occupying forces…