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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Poor Llewyn is both a loser and a user. Nothing is safe in his hands as his life careers from disaster to disaster whilst he goes from crashing on couch to couch in his long suffering friend’s New York apartments. He even manages to lose one of his host’s cat that he lets escape into…
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Scrooge & Marley
When Charles Dickens published his novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 1843 it’s runaway success was credited with restoring the Christmas season as one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and somberness. Never been out of print since then, this classic tale of finding the good inside even an…
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HAVA NAGILA : THE MOVIE
Who would a guess that such an inane and somewhat annoying song such as Hava Nagila would have such a wealth of history, and more face lifts than Joan Rivers? Well filmmaker Roberta Grossman, and in her amusing and fascinating documentary she traces how this staple of Barmitzvahs and Weddings went from Ukraine to YouTube…
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LENNON NAKED
Hard to believe that in just a months time John Lennon, the most infamous member of the Beatles, would have been celebrating his 73d birthday. In the 33 years since he was gunned down outside the Dakota the attention to his colorful life never seems to dim. A couple of years ago there was Sam…
