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Drug addiction is a tragedy that has fallen on America’s high and the mighty, the well-educated and the high-school dropout, the celebrity and the ordinary Joe, the wealthy and the middle class, the poor and downtrodden. In Beautiful Boy, 18-year-old Nic Sheff comes from an...
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Parker Sevak astonish us in The Kindergarten Teacher, an intriguing drama about the power and unfortunate results of obsession. Gyllenhaal plays Lisa, who has been a normal kindergarten teacher for twenty years, and Sevak portrays Jimmy, the student...
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First Man, a visually astounding and authentic biography of Neil Armstrong, succeeds because of director Damien Chazelle’s unflagging obsession with wanting to erase the myths surrounding the legendary astronaut and his voyage to the moon. Chazelle became intrigued with Armstrong’s...
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Private Life exposes the trials and tribulations facing a married couple who desperately want a baby. Although the movie evokes some laughter, we can’t help feeling blue about what Rachel and Richard put themselves through while trying to have a child. Fine actors Kathryn Hahn...
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Bad Girls (Jerry Goldsmith, 1994) **** Colour me surprised for Jerry Goldsmith’s Bad Girls combines sass and ingenuity. Frankly, I wasn’t expecting the music to be good. Vague memories of the film notwithstanding, it seemed like he might phone in this contribution. Nothing...
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Many may not realize that the electric vibrator was invented in the 1880s as a way to cure hysteria in women. That historical fact forms the basis for Hysteria, a fanciful story of romance, women’s rights and the fortitude...
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