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Inherent Vice

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The reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon is known for his dense and complex novels which he has never allowed to be adapted into movies, until now that is. When ‘Inherent Vice’ his seventh novel was published in 2009 the dust jacket proclaimed that it was ‘part-noir, part-psychedelic romp’. In the hands of auteur filmmaker Paul Thomas … Continue reading



Iris

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Photograph by Bruce Weber ‘I don’t like pretty’ says the 93 year old idiosyncratic fashion maven Iris Apfel in an enchanting new documentary by Albert Maysles. Iris acknowledges that she was never a conventional beauty but that has hardly stopped her pursuing her passion for style and becoming one of most original and daring dressed women … Continue reading




Joy

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There is more than a touch of irony that the heroine of David O Russell’s new movie is called Joy as we can see right from the off, that her rather miserable life is far from joyous.  It is based on the true life story of Joy Mangano a divorced Long Island single mother who … Continue reading




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