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    Churchill

    This new biopic on one of the 20th Century’s most famous political leaders is a re-imagining of the few days leading up to Operation Overload which the Allied High Command were preparing to launch in June 1944 to finally get a foothold back in Europe to hasten the end of the War. Churchill (Brian Cox) the … Continue reading

    A Cure For Wellness

    The only thing in the way of an essential Wall Street merger is the agreement and signature of the company’s CEO, but the trouble is he has upped and taken himself off to a mysterious Swiss Wellness Center from which he is refusing to leave.  The frustrated Board of Directors who desperately need the deal … Continue reading

    A Dangerous Method

      This should have been subtitled ‘all you need to know about how psychoanalysis was first created when Freud & Jung decided all our behavioral ‘problems’ were based on sexual hang-ups’.  Of course in David Cronenberg’s movie, almost drowning in dialogue, the psycho-babble between these two great men in particular gives a much more refined take than I do on this … Continue reading

    Denial

    Timing isn’t everything for deciding on the release date of a new movie, but even so when the producers planned the launch of Denial they could have no inkling that the whole of the world’s media would be totally fixated with a U.S. Presidential Election with a Republican Candidate whose behavior bears more than a passing … Continue reading

    Dough

      In this decidedly old-fashioned movie British filmmaker John Goldschmidt lays on the schmaltz with a charming wee tale of how a small part of a traditional Jewish bakery struggles to adapt to the demands of contemporary life in London’s East End. Sixty-something-year-old widower Nat Dayn (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) is something of a curmudgeon who … Continue reading

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