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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920)
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
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SHERLOCK, 4.2 – ‘The Lying Detective’
Sherlock’s almost manic necessity for tricky narrative transition calms down a bit this week, fortunately. There are less wipes, dissolves, and multiple POVs cluttering up “The Lying Detective”, and it’s all the better for it because Steven Moffat’s script and the fine performances are the stars here, as Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) goes into a drug-fuelled…
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LA LA LAND (2016)
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
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BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984)
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.
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DONNIE DARKO (2001)
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a rabbit costume, who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes across town, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.
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THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985)
In New Jersey, 1935, a character from a movie enters the real world…
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2017: TRUE LIFE STORIES AT THE MOVIES
There are some exciting movies to look forward to in 2017, but it some of the best may be telling stories taken straight from reality…
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SILENCE (2016)
In the 17th-century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism…
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.3 – ‘Travelers’
The third episode, “Travelers”, shows the main characters undergoing a transformation as each heads off in a separate direction. While this is slowly helping the characters to develop, the problem in this particular episode may just be the sheer amount of subplots it tries to handle in the space of an hour; jumping from each…
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SHERLOCK, 4.1 – ‘The Six Thatchers’
As is customary with Sherlock, there are a lot of red herrings to wade through in “The Six Thatchers” before even a whiff of the essential plot. Pushing aside the whole of “The Abominable Bride” and its dream palace return to the Victorian milieu of the original Conan Doyle stories, writer Mark Gatiss immediately deals…
