Redoubtable
DVD Review
Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love, they marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc.
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Tom Jones
Blu-Ray Review
Adaptation of the 18th century classic about the adventures of a foundling.
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Bagdad Cafe
DVD Review
After a German woman falls out with her husband in the Mojave desert, she storms off to a truck stop, where she begins to transform - and be transformed by - the people who live there.
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L'Amant Double
DVD Review
A fragile young woman falls for her psychotherapist... and his twin.
Flesh & Blood
Blu-Ray Review
A band of mercenaries rape and pillage their way through 16th century Italy, with the Black Death at their heels.
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Girls On Film 3
DVD Review
A compendium of short films about lesbian and bisexual women.
Mansfield 66/67
DVD Review
A documentary about the final years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield's life and untimely death. Was that ill-fated car crash really caused by a curse after her alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan?
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Crowhurst
DVD Review
Story of the amateur sailor who tried to circumnavigate the globe.
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King Of Hearts
Blu-Ray Review
Sent to the small town of Marville to disarm a bomb left behind by retreating German troops, an English soldier finds it has been taken over by the abandoned inmates of the local asylum.
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The Piano
Blu-Ray Review
A mute woman in an arranged marriage makes a dangerous bargain in an attempt to retrieve her stranded piano.
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