drama
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I Am Yours
Newbie Norwegian filmmaker Iram Haq’s new drama is based on her own life and her struggle as a woman caught between two cultures. Struggling actress Mina, a second-generation immigrant, is an attractive 27 year old divorcee who shares custody of her 6 year old son with her ex-husband, a successful architect, and his new wife…
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Big Eyes
In a rather radical departure from his last few very edgy movies acclaimed director Tim Burton has opted to make a biopic about Walter Keane the infamous plagiarist who in the 1950’s claimed that his wife’s populist art was his own work. It’s a colorful lightweight drama that never gets dark even when Keane’s trickery…
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The Drop
This wonderful new crime thriller written by Denis Lehane (‘Mystic River’,’Gone Baby Gone’) set in Boston his hometown, is the story of Bob a solitary loner who is a bartender is his cousin Marv’s bar. Well the name over the door is still Marv’s but after he got heavily into debt gambling, he was forced to…
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Wild
After her cancer-ridden mother died just aged 45, Cheryl Strayed fell to pieces. Heavily in debt and with her marriage disintegrating she developed an obsession for sleeping with countless strangers and an addiction to heroin. Her solution to finding a path to recovery and do some major soul-searching was deciding to hike alone the entire…
