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LIVE BY NIGHT (2016)
A group of Boston gangsters set up shop in Florida during Prohibition, competing with rivals and the Klu Klux Klan.
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GOODFELLAS (1990)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
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SHERLOCK, 4.3 – ‘The Final Problem’
If this is the end of Sherlock then, I have to say, so be it. In this fourth series, it has eschewed the mythology of Holmes and Watson that underpinned the series since 2010, to plough a self-indulgent path away from its source material. How ironic then that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s own tale “The…
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HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
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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…
