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  • LEE DANIEL'S THE BUTLER

    The epic domestic drama of how Cecil Gaines a young negro slave from a Southern cotton plantation evolved into a Butler to a string of US Presidents in The White House also serves as a backdrop for the birth and survival of the Civil Rights Movement through the last century.  It’s a powerful tale that doesn’t…

  • OLD CATS

    Isadora and Enrique are an elderly couple living in a large comfortable apartment in Santiago with their two old cats. The bane in their life is their highly strung daughter Rosario and her butch girlfriend Beatrice (who insists on being called Hugo)  who want them to bankroll their latest hare-brained money-making scheme. However Isadora who has…

  • FRUITVALE STATION

    In the opening sequences using grainy footage from onlookers cellphones we see how this story is going to end.  Not long after 2009 has just been welcomed in by this happy boisterous New Year crowd travelling on the BART train in Oakland, California when Oscar Grant, a 22 year old African-American is shot in the…

  • PRINCE AVALANCHE

    This unlikely synopsis of two loners spending the summer painting the yellow lines on a deserted highway in the backwoods of Texas turned out to be quiet wee gem of an oddball movie.  Set in 1988 when time really seemed to stand still, it is the most gentlest of buddy movies where a budding relationship…