drama
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
This movie was unquestionably the biggest breakout hit of SUNDANCE 2012. I will fess up that it hadn’t even entered my radar until everyone (that I respected) at the Festival was raving about it, and so much so that the Organizers thankfully scheduled an extra P + I Screening so i could join a…
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THE KING
Albert, the Duke of York, was the 2nd son of King George V and as a Naval Officer and husband and father with two young children he enjoyed a calm and privileged life and the freedom that came with not being the Heir to the British Throne. That all changed suddenly with the unexpected death…
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SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS
And watching this movie certainly didn’t make it one of the better days. It’s a mash of three separate stores about a group of four struggling Portlanders whose lives are going nowhere, just like this film. These are disparate characters out of step with the rest of the world, but writer/ director Matt McCormick ensures…
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MOONRISE KINGDOM
If I could get to choose to come back in my next life to a world created by a filmmaker it would have to one by inspired fantasist Wes Anderson, and preferably the one where ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ is based. In this his 7th feature he conjures up an idyllic 1965 New England sunny summer on…
