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Recent reviews

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  The Dressmaker 2015

  ★★★ Watched 05 Jul 2017

  Quirky.  Didn't really land for me, but enjoyable.

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  Sense and Sensibility 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jul 2017

  Watched it this time accompanied by Emma Thompson's commentary, which is *fantastic* and often laugh-out-loud funny.

Popular reviews

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  The Immigrant 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 May 2014 1

  LOCATION: Sundance Sunset 5, West Hollywood, CA

  PERFORMANCES:
  Marion Cotillard - she's just luminous in this film. Enormously complex...yearning, reserved, striving, quiet, determined, a woman of faith and belief, grit and survivalism. She does things seemingly against her nature, and then you realize they ARE her nature, and then she does things to go against that newly perceived nature and then you realize that she simply cannot be pigeonholed. She is a swirling mix of strength and beauty and reflection.…

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  Only Lovers Left Alive 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Jun 2014

  LOCATION: Sundance Sunset 5, West Hollywood

  PERFORMANCES:
  Tilda Swinton (Eve) and Tom Hiddleston (Adam) were simply divine, and unexpectedly funny, in this film. What a delightful challenge they both tackled lovingly - to play the part of beings who have been alive for centuries - aged and yet still engaged connoisseurs of the arts - and the vampirism is secondary in that it only informs how they eat and how they move about the world during the dark hours. These…

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