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SAVING MR BANKS
Based very loosely on a true story, this is the tale about all the shenanigans behind the making of the multi-Oscar winner smash hit movie ‘Mary Poppins’ in 1964. Walt Disney had been pursuing the book’s author P.L. Travers (Pamela) for the past 20 years to get the film rights and now in a last ditch…
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Naked As We Came
Laura and her younger brother Elliot are making a mad dash to their family home in New England after they have received an urgent phone call telling then that Lilly their terminally ill mother had just checked herself out of the hospital the day before. As they argue on the drive up there from Manhattan,…
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WINNIE MANDELA
With its opening shots dramatically sweeping over the sun-drenched plains accompanied by the lush sounds of a symphony orchestra you can be forgiven for thinking that you are about to see an African ‘Sound of Music’ rather than the tale of the poor tribeswoman who would end up marrying one on the most famous men…
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Monster Pies
This very touching wee coming of age romance is set in a Melbourne suburb in Australia in the 1990’s when people still watched VHS tapes and wore baggy jeans. Michael is a teenager living with his divorced mother who is always off working, and with only one friend to his name, is very much a…
