drama
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Sister Aimee : The Disappearance of the US’s most famous religious charlatan.
Sister Aimee is a bonky film about an even bonkier character Aimee Semple McPherson whose story is too ridiculous to be real. In fact filmmakers Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann make a point of telling us that only 5.5% of their film is true and the rest is pure (and slightly warped) imagination. They focus…
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My Father, The Bride : a Japanese tale about being a Family
Toka (Honoka Matsumoto) is an unhappy young career woman in Tokyo who meets her estranged husband once a week even though they seem to have very little common. They only married three years ago and she is too ashamed to share the news of its failure with family. As it is the 3rd year…
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Berlin, I Love You ; the latest in the I Love You Cities movie series
The ‘I Love You City’ series of movies started off with such a bang with the first film ‘Paris I Live You’ in 2006 but has been a rather major disappointment ever since This latest, and the 4th in the franchise, is based in Berlin and as usual boasts an impressive line up of…
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J T LEROY : Literary Bandit’s Haul of Mirrors
The story of this literary hoax is a confusing one but the movie is a Dummy’s Guide to JT LeRoy and lays out the pieces in a way that begins to make sense. As it holds up a mirror to people pretending to be who they are not it is hard to decide if…
