This is a beautiful well acted, poignant and powerful drama that touches you on many levels. It stars the superb Chazz Palminteri(The Usual suspects) as Yonkers Joe who along with his gambling pals and girlfriend Janice played by the warm and lovely Christine Lahti(Chicago Hope) regularly swindles other people and establishments on cards or other […]
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This is a hilarious teen comedy that was surprisingly good amidst the very unrealistic plot, it centers around a couple of lotharios on the football team, are a little bored at having to go for yet another summer training football camp with their foul mouthed coach, and prankish team mates. When they hear of a […]
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Another great series which originated in 2006 and promoted as “This year’s Lost“, although the Writer’s Strike did hold it off for a while with only 11 episodes aired till the end of December of 2007, which led to some confusion as to what happened to a few characters, it is still mesmerising to watch, […]
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This is a fascinating series that is already much loved in it’s genre, and I simply can’t wait for the next season. It has already won the matriach Sally Fields(the endearing mother in Steven Spielberg’s Forrest Gump) a Golden Globe as best actress, and you can see immediately why, she strikes a core as all […]
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This is a drama based on the book by Richard Yates, it tells the story of a young couple Frank and April Wheeler played by Leonardo DiCaprio and kate Winslet in the early part of the 20th century, both reunited for the first time onscreen since the blockbuster that was Titanic. We initially meet the […]
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This is a heart renching true story of many of the untold parts of the war and conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and many parts of the world, that we do not get to see or hear about, that of the escort that makes sue the bodies of the fallen get home to their families, and […]
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This is a brilliant drama following the lives of several different characters, with stellar acting all through. Harrison Ford plays a good natured ICE (Immigration Customs and Enforcement) officer Max Brogan, who along with his partner the brilliant Cliff “The Chameleon” Curtis, plays his partner (he has played a number of varied roles, a fluent […]
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This is a romantic comedy of interconnecting lives starring Ginnifer Goodwin (Margee from Big love), Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Justin Long (from Die Hard 4.0), Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly and Bradley Cooper. Goodwin plays Gigi Haim, who has just come from a date, where she is misreading every sign, that this could be “the one“, […]
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The Wrestler is a heartrenching tale of many a wrestler through the world of the professional wrestling circuit, it tells the story of Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a wrestler who was one time at the top of his game, but now battling on the small time circuit to make ends meet, along with his weekday […]
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This is a powerful movie, with terrific acting by one of the most underrated Irish actors in James Nesbitt, and the always stalwart Liam Neeson. It is a poignant tale taking into account the troubles in Northern Ireland from the 70’s and fast forwarded today, and told from the point of the two protagonists Joe […]
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