drama
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DETATCHMENT
Billed as a drama, this new movie on the hellish experiences of a substitute teacher in a public high school from infrequent Brit filmmaker Tony Kaye is nothing short of a horror story. It makes his 1998 hit movie ‘American History X’ seem like a walk in the park by comparison, and that, if you recall,…
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Born & Raised
Young Bubbs needs to up sticks and leave his small coastal town if he is ever to live his own life. He still lives with his embittered mother Mary who is obsessed with the fact that every man in her life always runs out on her and she is on Bubbs case constantly, and…
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THE ILLUSIONIST
Based on a script by the late great Jacques Tati the French comic genius and directed by Sylvain Chomet (‘The Triplets of Belleville’) one knew that this film would have to be good. And probably even much better than that. And it was, and more. The story involves a sad lanky French magician named Tatischeff…
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LE VENDEUR aka THE SALESMAN
Marcel Lévesque has been the Salesmen on the Month for the past 16 years in a small car dealership in a backwater town in Quebec where it never ever seems to stop snowing. Marcel is past retirement age but whilst he is still fit and anxious to keep working, the town that was totally dependent…
