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Trust Me
I did ‘trust’ actor turned writer/director Clark Gregg that after watching the trailer that this, his sophomore feature, was a comedy. Far from it, even though it has some comic moments this dark story of a Hollywood Agent whose career is sinking below rock bottom, is quite a depressing affair. Gregg stars as Howard Holloway…
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The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
The late great Sophie Tucker was one the World’s most popular and successful entertainers for the first half of the 20 Century. This very early superstar with her wonderful range of comic and risque songs was one of the first women in show business who pioneered the way grabbing top billing in Vaudeville Theater, on…
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Futuro Beach
Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motorbikers racing across the sand dunes and when they reach the end of the beach discard their bikes and clothes and run off into the high rolling waves. They soon get caught in riptides and despite…
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The Fault In Our Stars
16 year old Hazel Graze is permanently attached to an oxygen tank that now keeps her alive after her most recent bouts of cancer. If knowing that her days on earth are severely limited isn’t bad enough, she has to cope with her well-meaning parents and their enforced sunny dispositions to just get through each…
