drama
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The Companion
Every country in the world dealt with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s & 1990’s in different way, and the government in Cuba chose to round up patients and send them to a military facility turned into a sanitarium where they were very carefully ‘supervised’. If the patient conformed and behaved they were allowed out on…
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What We Have
Forty-something-year old Maurice has forsaken his hometown of Paris where he was successful actor and landed up in North Bay a remote small town in Northern Ontario where is regarded as something of an exotic enigma. His French accent wins him compliments but his insistence on still keeping to some of his big city habits…
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Demolition
From the opening scenes when Mitchell Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife Julia (Heather Lind) are bickering whilst driving in New York traffic when their car gets suddenly sideswiped killing Julia, we are on edge expecting more trauma at any moment. As Davis goes into a state of shock he has no idea how to…
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I Saw The Light
There is only one good reason (well, maybe two) to sit through the long drawn out and rather tedious biopic of the very short life of singer/songwriter Hank Williams, and that is because of its star Tim Hiddleston. He puts in a powerhouse of a performance and is nothing less than magnetic in this overly long…
