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SMALL TIME

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Al and Ash are a pair of rather wonderfully devious salesmen that could easily sell ice to Eskimos.  As it happens they make their living in the Used Car Lot …Diamond Motors…. that they have owned together in California for some years. They are old-school car dealers with a line of patter and double-act routine … Continue reading



St Vincent

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Vincent, with no visible regular means of support and with not a single friend in the world other than Felix his rather mangy Persian cat, is a cantankerous old drunk.  When Maggie a newly single mother and Oliver her 12 year old son move in to the house next door, things get off to bad start … Continue reading



Starred Up

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Violent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in them. ‘Starred Up’ with a brilliant career-making performance from 23 year old Jack O’Connell is one such movie especially as it has the near-obligatory shower scene that ends … Continue reading



The Drop

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This wonderful new crime thriller written by Denis Lehane (‘Mystic River’,’Gone Baby Gone’) set in Boston his hometown, is the story of Bob a solitary loner who is a bartender is his cousin Marv’s bar. Well the name over the door is still Marv’s but after he got heavily into debt gambling, he was forced to … Continue reading



The Fault In Our Stars

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16 year old Hazel Graze is permanently attached to an oxygen tank that now keeps her alive after her most recent bouts of cancer. If knowing that her days on earth are severely limited isn’t bad enough, she has to cope with her well-meaning parents and their enforced sunny dispositions to just get through each … Continue reading



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