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HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST & REBEL
The joy about a good documentary is making one re-appraise opinions. Like this fascinating portrayal of Hugh Hefner, who before I started viewing, I had assumed was a very old somewhat annoying man who had made a tidy sum from soft-porn and now spent his days in his pajamas surrounded by a bevy of pretty…
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SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE
I came across this delightful quintessentially English movie from 2006 that is a series of vignettes of some gentle romantic encounters that is a perfect alternative to the overblown commercialism of ‘THE Wedding’ today. Set on one sunny day on glorious Hampstead Heath (London’s ‘Central Park’) it follows the minute detail of seven very different…
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A Screaming Man
Adam, a former National Swimming Champion, is the proud manger of the pool at a smart hotel in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, where he has worked for the past 30 years. Known by all simply as’ Champ’, he now has his grown up son Abdel working as he Assistant so all is right in…
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THE TILLMAN STORY
Soon after the events of 9/11, newly-wed Pat Tillman and his brother Kevin signed up to fight for his country like so many other Americans at the time. Pat however was no ordinary recruit, but a major NFL football player who had turned down a multi-million contract so he could enlist and the Bush Administration made…
