2012
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SOMM
Jason Wise’s captivating new documentary is a study of sheer obsession. That, with more than a degree of insanity, are evidently two of the essential qualifications you need to become a Master Sommelier. Oh yes, an encyclopedic knowledge of wine helps too. This nail-biting movie follows four such fool-hardy and intrepid young men as they prepare…
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MENTAL
There is an hilariously funny opening sequence when the camera swoops down from the nearby mountains to spot Shirley, a suburban housewife on the verge of a breakdown, hanging out her washing in her garden whilst she recreates the beginning of ‘The Sound of Music’ that she is totally obsessed with. Her five daughters however…
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Eden
This Eden is hardly the biblical ‘Garden of God’ but a small tacky Bar in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district where some very enthusiastic but totally untalented Drag Queens put on Shows. The opening scenes of the movie are in the Bar where Miro the frustrated Choreographer is trying to put this clumsy set of performers through…
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NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
Jonah is a scruffy twenty-something who lives in a large ramshackled house in Sydney’s inner city that he inherited from his parents and now shares with his two best friends Gus and Stevie with whom he makes a passable living throwing weekly wild house parties. Money may be tight, but there is plenty of drugs, sex…
