The setting of the story is Newark, New Jersey in the late sixties and early seventies. The title is a pun on the name of the only saints there – the Moltisanto family, most particularly Dickie Moltisanto
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Joint writer/director team Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor have come up with a strong story idea here, which deals with adoption, the nature of identity and sexual violence.
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This Aretha Franklin biopic covers the first twelve years of the singer’s career when in her teens and twenties up to her hit gospel album Amazing Grace in 1972, which was the biggest seller of her career.
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At the very beginning of the film we see Sandra (Clare Dunne) being beaten up by her partner Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson) while her little girl is running for help, carrying a note from her mother outlining her plight.
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This was originally intended to be a concept album by the cult pop group Sparks. They then sent it to director Leos Carax as an idea for a film – and the project developed from there. The result is a bizarre and original musical fantasy with minimal dialogue.
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It’s not often an actor in his sixties is asked to “age up” for a role but in The Last Bus Timothy Spall, in real life a strong and healthy sixty four year old, convincingly plays Tom, a man who has to be in his eighties or even nineties,
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One of the master strokes of John Krasinski’s original A Quiet Place was to make the threat – the aliens that dine on humans – blind, so they could only find their prey by sound.
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Reminiscence is set in a future world where, after an unspecified war and possible climate crisis, much of the world is flooded – well, certainly Miami and New Orleans.
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Grief stricken Beth (Rebecca Hall) has been recently widowed in a most horrific way. Her husband of 14 years Owen (Evan Jonigkeit) shot himself through the head. Beth is still living in the beautiful lakeside house Owen built for them.
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This is the back story of one of the characters in the “GI Joe” comic, toy and movie franchise.
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