The setting is middle-class urban Italy – Rome, in fact. Seven old friends gather for dinner at the […]
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A friend asked what this movie was about and I said ‘Contragate’. Being a baby-boomer he just nodded […]
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Widows is a remake of a story written by Lynda La Plante, doyenne of British crime writers. She […]
Whether you’re a university-educated, chardonnay-sipping, goats cheese-eating, leftie/greenie inner-city dweller, or you just like to see such folk […]