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Italian/Algerian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino known for I Am Love and A Bigger Splash uses his signature cinematic sensuality to deep effect in Call Me By Your Name, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Hammer plays a research student spending a summer in his professor’s Italian villa. The …
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Toronto’s resident fantasy maestro Guillermo Del Toro shot The Shape of Water here. Sally Hawkins nimbly plays a mute cleaning lady who craves love. It’s the Cold War and the government lab where she works has a secret kept under lock and key. A sentient sea creature / human of great beauty is being …
Call Me By Your Name is being hailed as a masterpiece as it reinvents romance with compassion, art and its unique look and feel. Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino sets his story written by James Ivory based on the novel by André Aciman, in a beautiful rural Italian villa where a researcher in Greek …
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The Disaster Artist may not be my cup of tea, but it’s definitely gaining ground and it’s going to leave a mark. Brothers James and Dave Franco go back in time to 2001 when to re-enact Tommy Wiseau cobbling together a film universally agreed upon as worst ever made, The Room. Wiseau was mysterious, …
Mexico’s Day of the Dead seems like a grim idea for an annual musical festival, celebrating those who have left us. It features death masks and gruesome skeleton costumes, but Disney Pixar’s Coco shows it as a colourful, loving ode to family ties, through feasts and music that is anything but grim. …
