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The Girlfriend Experience (2009) - Sasha Grey

Sex workers who advertise “the girlfriend experience,” will, for the right price, tongue-kiss you, cuddle, listen to your boring stories about setting up a 529 plan for your kid, your thoughts about Man on Wire, your worries about whether your next TV show will get produced. In The Girlfriend Experience, the director takes your money and gives you a quick hand-job.

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Once upon a time there was Barbarella to save the world

August 6, 2019September 30, 2019

Today, there are countless superheroes on the movie screens. Batman and Superman on the hand, and Marvel’s superheroes on the other hand, fight against the bad guys who want to take over our world. Looking back on the past years of cinema, we see that the audience was also interested in superheroes in those years. They were very few, but they tried to save the world.

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Desperate dancing couples to win prize money

August 1, 2019

Erase the forced smiles from the desperate faces, and what the dance marathons of the 1930s came down to was fairly simple. A roomful of human beings went around and around within four walls for weeks at a time without sleep, populating a circus for others who paid to see them. At the end, those who didn’t collapse or drop dead won cash prizes that were good money during the Depression. And the Depression, in an oblique sort of way, was the reason for it all. The marathons offered money to the winners and distraction to everyone else.

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Blow Up: Beyond the vaguely detail on the photograph

July 26, 2019July 29, 2019

Italian filmmaker Michalengelo Antonioni’s Blow Up tells the story of fashion photographer Thomas (David Hemmings) with a murder in his 60s in London. Antonioni made a film that questioned both the political attitude of his hero and how the audience watched the film.

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An Education: The story of a girl coming of age in pre-Beatles Britain

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

Ever since it screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it took home both the audience and cinematography awards, An Education has gone on to charm festival audiences worldwide. But even as it’s generating Oscar buzz—especially for its young lead, Carey Mulligan, who’s been hailed the new Audrey Hepburn—the film has also sparked a fair amount of ire along the way, with a few outraged theatergoers dismissing it as “that pedophile movie” for its depiction of the relationship between a precocious 16-year-old girl (Mulligan) and her sophisticated older lover (Peter Sarsgaard).

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Dance against the escalating danger of revolution-eve Cuba

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

I was not a fan of “Dirty Dancing,” although $150 million in 1987 box-office dollars attempted, unsuccessfully, to convince me I was wrong. I thought Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey were terrific dancers, and I thought the plot was a clunker assembled from surplus parts at the Broken Plots Store. The actions of the characters (especially her parents) were so foreordained, they played like closing night of a run that had gone on way too long.

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The Notebook: Behind every great love story is a story

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

The Notebook is a timeless love story based on the novel written by Nicholas Sparks. The movie focuses on the young love of Allie Nelson and Noah Calhoun, played by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. The film creates the perfect romance scene for the two to fall in love. What makes this story so amazing is that it goes back and forth from when they fell in love to later in their life.

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Apollo 11: An eye-opening documentary for 50th anniversary of Moon Landing

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019

The documentary Apollo 11 starts, as the famous mission did, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Trucks ferry massive rocket props, machinery grinds as it would in any construction zone, the sky is a crystal blue. The scene is, in a word, vibrant – so startlingly alive that for the first few minutes, I wasn’t sure if I was watching footage from 1969 or a Nasa promo shot from last year.

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Toy Story movies and Pixar’s technological evolution

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019

Toy Story 4, which tells the story of an object made out of garbage, becomes a child’s best friend and the adventures of toys, was released on June 21st. The fourth film in the series, Toy Story 4, is a film that touches the audience emotionally and takes them to their childhood.

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Tel Aviv on Fire: A genial comedy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

July 12, 2019July 13, 2019

Both responses will attach themselves to Sameh Zoabi’s genial satire about a Palestinian soap opera writer and the Israeli security officer who tries to influence the direction of a TV show’s plot. Fitfully amusing yet unable to withstand close inspection, the movie will be a popular item in festivals and showcases, though Israeli money means Arab play is impossible.