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WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGGOO?
What was I doing in 1966 that made me miss seeing William Klein’s surrealist satire on the fashion world ‘Who Are You Polly Maggoo’? I guess better late than never, although after viewing it I realize that like me, the movie has not aged well with time. What the critics back then hailed as a…
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Bully
This has been generating a great deal of media attention because it had initially been rated an ‘R’ movie thus preventing it been shown to the under 17’s who are most affected by the problem. The filmmakers took out a few swear words to ease censor’s conscience who gave it a PG-13 rating, but now thatI have seen…
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PLEASE REMOVE YOUR SHOES
If you are a frequent air traveller, then you may want to think twice about wanting to see this movie. I don’t think any of us are enamored with the pantomime we have to endure with before we can board a plane these days, particularly as few of us are convinced that they effectively make…
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KILL LIST
I was persuaded to go out of my cinematic comfort zone to go see a new indie horror movie: a genre that I really loathe. This British one, the second feature directed by Ben Wheatley from a script he co-wrote with his wife Amy Jump had garnered rave reviews that included ‘The most original, unsettling…
