drama
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TRISHNA
A new Winterbottom movie is always something that I really look forward too with great anticipation, partly because it’s almost impossible to predict what genre he will choose let alone the subject matter. After last year’s wonderfully funny ‘The Trip’ Mr Winterbottom, one of the UK‘s most versatile and prolific directors, has gone back to the…
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CORIOLANUS
If I had one regret about by youth (!) it would be that I never really studied enough Shakespeare in school, which is so sad as his incomparable prose just sings. Especially when it is performed as well as in actor/director Ralph Fiennes’s new modern-day take on Coriolanus : yet another of Will’s plays that…
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A Dangerous Method
This should have been subtitled ‘all you need to know about how psychoanalysis was first created when Freud & Jung decided all our behavioral ‘problems’ were based on sexual hang-ups’. Of course in David Cronenberg’s movie, almost drowning in dialogue, the psycho-babble between these two great men in particular gives a much more refined take than I do on this…
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PRAIRIE LOVE
A man we only know as ‘The Vagrant’ is driving his beaten up wreck of a station wagon across North Dakota’s frozen tundra he’s dressed head to toe in fur lined clothes that we can hardly make out his face. He chances upon a broken down truck in the middle of nowhere and its owner…
