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  • Selma

    This extraordinary wonderful new film that finally brings Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King centre stage in a Hollywood movie focuses on just one of the most crucial periods in his life. After the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act had made segregation illegal, most of the South simply ignored the new Law and still…

  • Top Five

    Chris Rock is a very funny man.  He is also an extremely talented actor as he proves in the role he wrote for himself in this, his third time behind the camera too.  Rock plays Andre Allen a comedian who donned an animal suit to play a gun-toting sidekick to an LA cop  as the…

  • The Monk With A Camera

    Life can be extraordinary privileged and full of exceptional opportunities when your grandmother is the fabled tastemaker and legendary fashion Editor Diana Vreeland.  So when young Nicholas expressed an interest in photography, his doting Grandmother was able to secure him an immediate apprenticeship under the distinguished  snapper Irving Penn and then later fixed him up with…

  • I Am Yours

    Newbie Norwegian filmmaker Iram Haq’s new drama is based on her own life and her struggle as a woman caught between two cultures. Struggling actress Mina, a second-generation immigrant, is an attractive 27 year old divorcee who shares custody of her 6 year old son with her ex-husband, a successful architect, and his new wife…