road movie
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SMALL, BEAUTIFUL MOVING PARTS
Is actually a small beautiful movie even though it is essential not about a great deal. Sarah is a woman with an insatiable desire for tinkering with all manner of things driven by technology : its not just her job but also her passion. When one such gadget is a tiny pregnancy tester that turns…
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TAKE ME HOME
Thirtysomething Thom is having another bad day. He fails to convince an Agent to give him his first break into photography, his Landlord has evicted him for not paying the rent yet again, and the illegal taxi cab he cheaply bought at an auction won’t start. It does eventually and Thom sets out into the…
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Bellflower
I guess this new hip, slightly grubby, apocalyptic indie movie could be classified as ‘mumblecore* plus’ i.e. it’s a tad more professional (despite the minuscule budget) and more accessible than others in that genre. It’s about two young men barely grown up who are best friends, good looking, immensely personable, very funny and quick-witted, and who are…
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Bomber
Eighty-year-old Alistar plans to take a road trip to a village in Germany to apologize for the fact that he accidentally dropped bombs on them as RAF flyer on his first mission during WW2 when he was just 18 years old. He is now a crotchety old fart constantly bickering with his long-suffering spouse and…
