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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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Tom O’Connor’s screenplay for this, inspired by a true story, is a cracking tale and considerably more enthralling than his Hitman’s Bodyguard comedies.
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When placing a child in the family pecking order, “coda” is not, as you, might think, a word to describe a late life baby arriving. It is an acronym standing for Child of Deaf Adults. Which is what teenager Ruby (Emilia Jones) is in the film of that title.
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The storyline of this highly effective and disturbing first feature film from Danish director Jeanette Nordahl could have become a female version of The Godfather. But Nordal has created something more low key and disturbing.
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There are a lot of ‘Influencers’ around at the present time. The younger ones watch them avidly – on TikTok, on Instagram and other social media outlets.
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In many ways this is like watching two films wrapped in one package.
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“The most beautiful Boy in the world” was how film director Luchino Visconti chose to describe 15 year old Björn Andrésen, when, after a Europe wide search, the director finally arrived in Sweden, where he found his ideal casting.
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Back in 1999 director M. Night Shyamalan made a brilliant movie called The Sixth Sense in which Bruce Willis played a child psychiatrist treating a small boy who could “see dead people”. I’ve been hoping for him to come up with something as good ever since. Old is not it.
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