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RINCO’S
Rinco, a young Japanese girl, runs away from home (and when you catch sight of her mother you soon know why), and she is bought up by her odd but nice grandmother who instills in her a real passion for cooking. So much so that by the time Granny dies she scrapes together enough money…
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J EDGAR
J Edgar Hoover ran the FBI as his personal fiefdom with a rod of iron for almost 50 years. He used his great position of power as the nations’ lead Investigator to compile secret files on all the most powerful men (and women) in this country, and it was these files that were alleged to…
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LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA
In the intro to my Blog I state that my preferred choice of movies are the ones that are ‘as weird as possible’. And I do sit through a lot of them. However I have just come across one that may even stand out as the most bizarre to date. From 1989 comes this movie…
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WISHFUL DRINKING
This is Carrie Fisher’s take on own her life to date: highly edited and mined deeply to extort as many laughs as she can from stories that must have seemed anything but funny when it actually happened. The daughter of movie star Debbie Reynolds and hit crooner Eddie Fisher whose traumatic marriage, divorce and re-marriages…
