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Movie reviews June 1 to June 14

Odeon Original Sound Piazza Strozzi, 2 tel. 055/214068 http://www.odeon.intoscana.it *For showtimes see events listing   Mon, June 6 MACHETE Left for dead after clashing with notorious Mexican drug kingpin Torrez, Machete has escaped to Texas, hoping to disappear and forget his tragic past. Instead, he

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Movie Reviews May 20 to June 1,

  Odeon Original Sound Piazza Strozzi, 2 tel. 055/214068 http://www.odeon.intoscana.it *For showtimes see events listing   May 20 to May 25 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES In the ...

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Movie Reviews – May 6 to 19,

Thursday, May 5 WORLD INVASION: BATTLE LOS ANGELES As cities around the world fall to alien invaders a marine staff sergeant who has just had his retirement approved is called back to the front line in order to assist a 2nd lieutenant and his platoon in the fight to reclaim

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Move Reviews- Apr 8 to 18,

  ASTRA 2 Piazza Beccaria, tel. 055/2343666 http://www.cinehall.it For showtimes see Events listing Monday, April 11   WINTER’S BONE   Newcomer Jennifer Lawrence stars as Ree Dolly, Ozarks resident in ...

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Movie Reviews – Mar 28 to April 7,

  March 28 MORNING GLORY   Breakfast television is the setting for this Roger Michell romantic comedy with Harrison Ford as the retired anchor lured onto the morning show with ...

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Movie Reviews – Mar 10 to 24,

Mon, March 14 - Tue, March 15 BLACK SWAN   Darren Aronofsky's fantastical psycho-melodrama is a thrilling depiction of the hothouse world of ballet and the fevered hysterical psychic disintegration of its protagonist. Nina (Natalie Portman , Oscar for Best Actress) is caught up in the pains and pressures of

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Movie Reviews – Feb 25 to Mar 10,

February 25, 26, 27, 28 TRUE GRIT   This Coen brothers' movie has all the hallmarks of greatness that we can expect from the most consistently excellent directing team in American cinema. It is the story of 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) and her search for the murderer

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My Kingdom

A British gangster movie set in contemporary Liverpool that borrows the ideas of Lear: gangland boss decides to split up his criminal empire between daughters Kath, a dockside brothel-keeper, Tracy, owner of a football team, and Jo, an ex-junkie and prostitute, removing their royal connections and embracing the

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LA DOLCE VITA

Special Valentine's Day screening; Italian with English subtitles One of the most significant films in Italian cinema, Fellini's rambling, apparently inchoate 1960 masterpiece defines the swinging 60s alla Romana, with the via Veneto as the beating heart of gossip columnist and would-be novelist Marcello Rubini's sweet

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AWAY WE GO

A couple of thirty-somethings find themselves expecting and go on an odyssey through the United States and Canada in search of that elusive something to keep their life balanced and in focus when all around them they seem to be living it all perfectly. Sam Mendes directs this romantic

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WEST SIDE STORY

(With apologies to the Bard), the unforgettable classic musical reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet…   Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair NYC, where we lay our scene, From ...

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THE TOURIST

Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are the A-list stars in this action thriller that relishes its luxurious settings and glorious Italian locations, especially Venice. He is the tourist, and she ...

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HEREAFTER

  Is there life hereafter? Clint Eastwood’s contemplative-some would say dour-movie says there is. Three stories are linked in this drama exploring one of the most frequently asked questions: the ...

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WAR REQUIEM

 Pacifist Benjamin Britten’s monumental twentieth-century masterpiece, War Requiem,  written for the dedication of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962, the ancient one having been almost totally destroyed by Nazi bombs, ...

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