comedy
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Bernie
Nearly every time I leave my comfort zone cinematically speaking and go see a movie that I instinctively know that I am not going to like/possibly loath even, I end up wishing I had stayed at home. I saw nothing in the trailer that I thought I would like about this one at all, but much to my…
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MOONRISE KINGDOM
If I could get to choose to come back in my next life to a world created by a filmmaker it would have to one by inspired fantasist Wes Anderson, and preferably the one where ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ is based. In this his 7th feature he conjures up an idyllic 1965 New England sunny summer on…
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WE HAVE A POPE
At the start of Nanni Moretti’s wonderful rich and glorious new movie the College of Cardinals are shuttered away in the Vatican to go through the traditional ritual of choosing a new Pope in great secrecy now that the last one has shuffled off his mortal coil. As the camera scans down the long line…
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HOSPITALITE aka Kantai
Koji Fukada’s strange odd wee movie teeters between being a droll farce and an absurdist comedy, and it is very intriguing to say the least. Mikio is a meek little man inherited a small printing business from his father and which he runs from a narrow rickety building which is also home for him and…
