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  • GLORIOUS 39

    The setting for this movie is a vast and rather splendid English country estate on the brink of World War 2 where an aristocratic family are enjoying their very privileged lives.  Anne, the eldest of the three grown up children discovers in an outhouse a record that plays government secrets, and she starts to suspect…

  • PARIAH

    A brilliant coming-of-age story of a butch black highly intelligent teenage girl who struggles to reconcile being gay within the confines of her conservative middle-class home. Her meddlesome bible-thumping mother is in denial of both her husband’s infidelity and her daughter’s sexuality thus creating more angst.  A thought-provoking film enlivened with some neat touches of…

  • WARHORSE

    In a small village in Devon, England at the beginning of the last century, Ted Narrowcutt a poor farmer buys a thoroughbred at auction for his son even though he pays far more for it than the plough horse that he really needed.  The decision irks his landlord who wanted the horse himself and now…

  • THE LOOK

    I was a little non-plussed when I started watching Angelina Maccarone’s new documentary on actress Charlotte Rampling as instead of the usual career review the movie was in 9 different sections each with an ominous sounding title such as ‘exposure’, ‘desire’, ‘beauty’, ‘resonance’, ‘death’, ‘love’ etc. with Ms. Rampling talking with an interesting array of…