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Pervert Park
Scandinavian filmmaking couple Frida & Lasse Barkfors made a somewhat bizarre choice for this, their debut documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award. They opted to paint a very humanized picture of a halfway house for convicted sex offenders in Florida. Surprisingly they achieved it quite perfectly with…
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
Greg Gaines doesn’t make friends easily. Not that he tries as he has concocted a way to get through his high-school days without making any. He is a funny smart-alec who is rather clever at telling people what they want to hear, but not very good at human interaction. He and his only friend Earl,…
GRISGRIS
You can be forgiven for thinking that you are watching an African version of Saturday Night Fever in the opening sequences of this movie which captures an energetic man whirling around at full speed on the dance floor in his bright shiny white dress shirt. The excited audience are enthralled with this man’s gymnastic dancing and…
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
I never ever dreamed of being an astronaut like other little boys, and now I have seen this rather enthralling 2007 documentary about the race to put a man on the moon, I know I would have failed on so many counts. It turns out that these early space pioneers were expected to design their…
