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  • 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…

  • REUNITING THE RUBINS

    A frail but very healthy looking Jewish Grandmother claims she is dying and pressures her long-suffering son Lenny to cancel his dream Cruise and bring his disparate grown up children who can’t abide each other together for one last Pesach in her old home that she has blown her retirement fund to but back. One’s…

  • PAUL GOODMAN CHANGED MY LIFE

    I can hardly claim the authorship of this title because I must confess that before I sat down to watch this documentary, I have never even heard of Paul Goodman.  Ooops!  But I know now that he was man of many gifts; he was a critic, sociologist, philosopher, poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, practicing psychiatrist, an…