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  • Petunia

    Petunia

    In Ash Chastain’s new comedy drama he has somewhat overloaded the neurotic Petunia family in New York with such a whole textbook of quirks, hangups and affectations that adding all the different story strands together makes for a rather dysfunctional movie. I should quickly add that its not without its charm and has a few…

  • We Always Lie To Strangers

    We Always Lie To Strangers

    The opening scenes of this new documentary …. with its perfectly wonderful title …. reels off a whole list of extraordinary facts about the small town of Branson in Missouri that you are almost tempted to book a flight there immediately. With a local population of just over 10000 all year round, they get a remarkable 8…

  • OLD CATS

    Isadora and Enrique are an elderly couple living in a large comfortable apartment in Santiago with their two old cats. The bane in their life is their highly strung daughter Rosario and her butch girlfriend Beatrice (who insists on being called Hugo)  who want them to bankroll their latest hare-brained money-making scheme. However Isadora who has…

  • Funkytown

    Funkytown

    The town in question that has this dubious title is Montreal, and the story (loosely based on real life) starts in 1976 when it was considered one of the world’s top nightclub destinations.  The aging star with the big ego is Bastien Lavallée, a TV show host and radio DJ whose top dance music shows make…