After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history...
I want to be Hugh Grant. No, let me rephrase that - I am Hugh Grant...that is, if Hugh Grant was American, twice as befuddled and half as charming. Oh, and really, really tall. What I mean to say is...oh, blast.
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Hot off his recent Academy Award nomination, Johnny Depp’s follow up to last year’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is none other than Finding Neverland. Originally slated for a release last Christmas, the then titled J.M. Barrie’s Neverland was shelved to avoid going head to head with the latest adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s greatest work, Peter Pan...
In 1995 a mob of ticketless Pearl Jam fans ripped down the fencing around the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, zig-zagging around police on horseback and down into the crowd. This wasn't your traditional rag-tag bunch of sweaty dudes running in diagonals hoping they'd make it past security - thousands of people streamed into the venue. Such was the kind of frenzy Pearl Jam did inspire in their hey day. I was one of them...
With its kinetic style, visceral approach, compelling storyline, and powerful social message, Fight Club makes a commanding case to be considered the '90s version of A Clockwork Orange...
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In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA "volunteer" who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (Forest Whitaker), stationed in Northern Ireland. The IRA hopes to use Jody as a bargaining chip to win the release of IRA operatives behind bars, but, while guarding Jody, Fergus becomes fast friends with his prisoner...
Fried Green Tomatoes is a thoroughly enjoyable movie-going experience, replete with laughter, tears, triumph, and tragedy...
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Agnieszka Holland's "Europa, Europa" brings freshness, immediacy and outrage to the growing body of films about the Holocaust. An incredible story in the way that only true stories can be, it is based on the memoirs of Solomon Perel who survived the war through a chain of extraordinary events.
The first moments of "Europa, Europa" recount Solly's circumcision, a physically brutal act in itself, yet nothing compared to the events he will experience later in his life...
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#218 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
13 March 2025, 3:00 pm
Some people say that my head's too big for my body and I say to them, 'compared to what?'
