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Legend

To Brits of a certain age, particularly Londoners, despite their acts of unspeakable violence the Kray Brothers have always been considered with great affection as part of the folklore of the East End in the 1950’s and the 1960’s.  Their exploits filled the tabloid newspapers at the time, as despite their thinly veiled gangster activities … Continue reading

LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA

In the intro to my Blog I state that my preferred choice of movies are the ones that are ‘as weird as possible’.  And I do sit through a lot of them.  However I have just come across one that may even stand out as the most bizarre to date. From 1989 comes this movie … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

LEONIE

This is the true story of Leonie Gilbert : a fiercely independent American woman who constantly defied taboos at the turn of the 20th Century when she became the Editor, then Lover, then Mother of the child of Japanese poet Yone Nogucci in New York. And then when he abandoned her and his son to … Continue reading

LES MISERABLES

I dreamed a dream in times gone by that Les Miz would be a much better movie than it is.  And although I wouldn’t go as far as to quote the last line from the main dramatic ballad ‘now life has killed the dream I dreamed,’ but I would say that it did rather dent … Continue reading

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