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  • SLEEPING BEAUTY

    An emotionless Lucy seems bored with her life. She works two dead-end jobs, one as waitress in a cheap restaurant, and the other as a mailroom office temp whose main task is to collate duplicated papers.  She also earns money by having a hose shoved down her throat for medical research.  Somehow in between all…

  • THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE

    Time for Dominic Cooper to step up the plate to be the leading man in a movie, and instead of choosing yet another of his nice romantic guys roles he elects to play one of the most horrible men of the last few decades Uday Hussein, son of the Iraqi dictator.  And if that is…

  • SHAME

    Brandon is a handsome successful Manhattanite in his 30’s; great apartment, great clothes, a well paying high-flying job, and judging by his physical shape, a good gym membership too. Yet beneath his public persona of a cool façade he is a compulsive sex addict who spends every waking minute of his day trying to find…

  • THE DEEP BLUE SEA

    This is the work of the two Terences.  The auteur filmmaker Terence Davies who’s uncompromising style has greatly restricted his output to just five features films sporadically over 23 years has put his own take on Terence Rattigan’s acclaimed post-WW2 play that hit a raw nerve when it was first staged in London in the…