romance
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Counting for Thunder
This is the tale of one man who went to Hollywood to follow his dream only to find it back home in Alabama after all. How loosely this wee fictionalized drama is based on filmmaker Philip Irwin Cooper’s real life, we are not quite sure, but given the fact that he wrote, directed, produced and…
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Something Like Summer
Something like Summer the rather accomplished directing debut of David Berry from a script by Carlos Pedraza is full of surprises. What starts out as a sweet LGBT romantic coming-of-age musical actually ends up as melodrama, and a very definite tear-jerker too. In between it covers a lot of ground always trying (and succeeding most of the time) it…
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Taekwondo
It is easy to see how some people may find Argentinian filmmaker Marco Berger’s latest movie way too strung out as he teases us for the entire 105 minutes as to whether his two young protagonist’s budding relationship ever take flight, but it is the most tenderest of tales, so beautifully told, that it’s impossible…
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The Ottoman Lieutenant
The Ottoman Lieutenant is one of those old-fashioned melodramatic war-time epic dramas, complete with a love triangle, that despite its predictable plot, will probably prove to be quite a crowd pleaser. That is unless you a stickler for history as in this Turkish financed production, the tragic Armenian Genocide when 1.5 million people were massacred,…
