drama
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Denial
Timing isn’t everything for deciding on the release date of a new movie, but even so when the producers planned the launch of Denial they could have no inkling that the whole of the world’s media would be totally fixated with a U.S. Presidential Election with a Republican Candidate whose behavior bears more than a passing…
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I, Daniel Blake
Now that veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach is 80 years old he keeps threatening that his latest movie will also be his last. We hope not as with I Daniel Blake he is not just back on form, but this is one of his best ever, born out by winning him his second Palme D’Or…
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Don’t Call Me Son
Anna Muylaert the Brazilian writer/director of last year’s rather sublime drama the multi-award winning The Second Mother, returns to the theme of family dynamics with her latest movie, as she explores the reality of parental/child relationships which cannot conform to everyone’s expectations and perceptions. This is the story of Pierre (Namoi Nero) a free-spirited teenager who plays…
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Christine
The tragic event of 29 years old news reporter Christine Chubbock who very dramatically blew her brains out live on local TV in Sarasota back in 1974 is a well-recorded incident that is hard to forget. However, what is not known at all is what could have possibly happened in Christine’s life that was so very dire…
