drama
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Birdman
Ex-Batman actor Michael Keaton must have felt more than a touch of deja-vu in the title role of Alejandro G. Inarritu’s brilliant dark comedy about an actor trying to redeem his career by staging a serious dramatic Broadway debut after his career as a movie comic-book hero has faded. The movie filmed almost entirely in…
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The Easy Way Out aka L’Art de la Fugue
Antoine is the middle one of three Parisian brothers, and is the one who has taken it upon himself to sort out his siblings unhappy lives even though his own is heading south too. He works as a writer producing catalogues for exhibitions who are feeling the pinch in a tough economic climate, and he…
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Low Down
The renowned jazz musician Joe Albany was the only white pianist to have ever played bepop with the great Charlie Parker. It was height of the success that Albany achieved but something that is merely hinted at in this new sobering biopic that focuses more on the musician’s struggle with his addiction to alcohol and…
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The Theory of Everything
The remarkable life story of the world renowned physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking who was diagnosed with motor-neurone disease at the age of 21 years and defying medical prognosis of an imminent death went on to publish world-changing theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, turns out to be one of the most tender and romantic…
