drama
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Drunktown’s Finest
‘Sick Boy’ wants to enlist in the Military to provide for his girlfriend and their baby on the way but he keeps slipping into his old habits which get him into trouble. Nizhini was adopted and spent most of her adolescence boarding in private schools far away and is obsessed with locating her birth family.…
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JUST A SIGH aka Le temps de l’aventure
What starts as not even a brief encounter but just mere eye contact across a crowded train carriage followed by one quick question, leads into a 24 hour romantic liaison that neither of the two strangers expected. Alix is a beautiful middle-aged actress who is commuting between Calais where she is currently performing in an…
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Bashment
British filmmaker Ricki Beadle Blair’s movies are never ever subtle, but this one made in 2010, insists on literally screaming about the cacophony of issues he crams into a rather manic 110 minutes. It tackles homophobia, hate crimes, racism, class, poverty, prison brutality, sexual identity, redemption plus there is the white star’s hangup for not being…
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I Am Happiness on Earth
Mexican filmmaker Julián Hernández’s latest cinematic treat is essentially a film within a film. It’s protagonist Emiliano is an openly gay director who’s current movie that we see in progress on screen involves filming real-life dancer Gloria Conterras and some of her students. It soon becomes apparent that Emiliano’s interests in the dancers go way beyond…
