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TAMARA DREW
In a picture-book setting of an idyllic Devonshire Farmhouse a group of middle-aged misfits gather in a writer’s retreat hoping to emulate their host and write a best selling novel of their own. The published author is a misogynist prig and so his saintly put-on wife is kept busy keeping both their house and their…
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Joan Rivers : A Piece of Work
The opening shots of “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” are of an extreme close up of Joan’s face, without makeup first thing in the morning. This so succinctly sets the tone for this exhilarating bare-all movie that documents a roller-coaster year in the life of this comedic tour-de-force. Joan allowed the filmmakers complete access…
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THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
This gentle warm delightful comedy is about a well-adjusted, happy, loving and quite devoted family. The two teenage children have reached that awkward stage when they start questioning things, in this case, to find out who their biological father is. It just so happens that their two parents are a lesbian couple, but that aside,…
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EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
This documentary is not what I thought it would be. Billed as a work by Banksy, the infamous secretive British street artist, but the movie neither goes any way to divulging his identity, or revealing much at all about this over-hyped man who revels in the excesses of the notoriety that accompanies all his exploits. …
