2014
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A Most Violent Year
Abel Morales wants to pursue the ‘American dream’ the right way. However his pushy wife Anna thinks otherwise. She is the daughter of the Brooklyn mobster who sold his small Heating Oil business to Morales in the first place, and Anna is well aware that if they are to be successful they will first have…
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Winter Sleep
Turkish auteur filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest masterful epic is set in the steppes of Cappadocia on the desolate plains of Anatolia, which are heart-stoppingly beautiful. Some of the ancient caves carved into the side of this mountainous terrain have been converted into a Hotel by Aydin, a local landowner retired from acting. It’s the…
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The Search For General Tso
This odd but entertaining documentary from writer/director Ian Cheney is an inquiry into how a ubiquitous dish of fried chicken became a staple item on every single Chinese restaurant in the USA even though nobody back in Mainland China has ever heard of it. Cheney discovers there was an actual General Tso a military hero…
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Top Five
Chris Rock is a very funny man. He is also an extremely talented actor as he proves in the role he wrote for himself in this, his third time behind the camera too. Rock plays Andre Allen a comedian who donned an animal suit to play a gun-toting sidekick to an LA cop as the…
