drama
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Leather
Director Patrick McGuinn’s new movie has the most misleading title for a gay drama as the ‘leather’ referred to is not some raunchy bar lifestyle as one might expect but it’s about a backwoodsman who actually crafts handmade sensible sandals as a living. Birch is a hunky hairy man who’s been sharing a…
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THE PATIENCE STONE
In a decrepit bomb-damaged house in a war-torn country ….probably Afghanistan ……an unnamed young woman in her mid thirties is struggling to take care of her two young children and also her much older husband who was seriously wounded in a battle. A bullet in his neck has reduced him to a comatose state, and…
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Scrooge & Marley
When Charles Dickens published his novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 1843 it’s runaway success was credited with restoring the Christmas season as one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and somberness. Never been out of print since then, this classic tale of finding the good inside even an…
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THE GREAT BEAUTY aka LA GRANDE BELLAZZA
There is not just only one person who could make claim to being ‘the great beauty’ in Paolo Sorrentino’s stunning new masterpiece that focuses on Rome’s fast set as everybody is completely obsessed with being desired and admired by all. Well, by everyone in their clique at least. At the epicentre of all this frantic…
