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ONE CHANCE

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We Brits evidently love an underdog breaking through. In 2007, two years before Susan Boyle dramatically assailed the musical world, a chubby and rather insignificant mobile phone salesman from Wales won the first ever ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Competition on television.  The name of this unlikely winner singing Puccini’s aria ‘Nessun dorma’ was Paul Potts, and this … Continue reading



ORANGES AND SUNSHINE

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From the late 1940’s up to 1970 the British Government surreptitiously ‘deported’ 130000 children placed in their care to Australia for  reasons I still cannot fathom.  This movie is the true story of how Margaret Humphreys, a Social Worker from Nottingham, uncovered the scandal, and almost single-handedly and against overwhelming odds and even threats against … Continue reading



Party Girl

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A weary and desolate Angélique Litzenburger a 60 year old dance-club hostess and former stripper sits nursing yet another drink at the bar and declares to her younger co-workers ‘I was a superstar!’ The trouble is that although she is way past her prime, she is still partying as hard as she did in her youth it’s simply that … Continue reading




PORFIRIO

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In 2005 Porfirio Ramirez Aldana’s name was splashed across the headlines and on all the television broadcasts in Colombia for his audacious and foolhardy criminal act.  What made it even more sensational was the fact he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair at the time. In Alejandro Landes’s extraordinary new film the details of the … Continue reading



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