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The OC - The Complete Second Season (Review)
There's trouble (and plenty of fun) in paradise in this 24-episode, 7-disc Season 2 collection of the smash-hit series set in Orange County's posh Newport Beach.
Fulfil your voyeuristic desires and observe the romances of Ryan and Marissa and Seth and Summer, the marriage of Sandy and Kirsten, felon (and Ryan's brother) Trey giving Newport living a try, Julie's lurid past coming back to haunt her, and other new hunks and hotties in their rich California ghetto.
The second season begins where the first ended. This box set includes an insightful commentary on the pivotal Rainy Day Women episode, by the creator Josh Schwartz and the members of the crew.
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My Summer of Love (Review)
Polish-born director Pawel Pawlikowski brings us the story of two teenage girls and their swooning relationship. Set within the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Dales, the tale is told as a fresh, erotic and sometimes funny exploration of faith and manipulation.
Tamsin (Emily Blunt) has returned from boarding school for the summer and is rattling around her parent's mansion while Mona (Nathalie Press) is a local girl without parents or prospects for that matter; furthermore Mona roams the street to avoid her brother Phil (Paddy Considine) who is a reformed violent criminal and born-again Christian now pouring away the drink in the pub owned by their late parents.
My Summer of Love follows Tamsin and Mona's dream yet gritty relationship engulfed with sexual obsession, claustrophobia and despair which are elegantly resolved with a clever twist in the narrative tail.
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Million Dollar Baby (Review)
Clint Eastwood’s multi-Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby is arguably his most impressive film to date. With a superbly tuned screenplay by Paul Haggis, it features Maggie (Hilary Swank), a gritty bad mannered wannabe boxer from a trailer trash background who is taught the ropes by washed-up boxing trainer - Frankie (Clint Eastwood) manager of a down-trodden LA gym. Frankie has his own internal battles to fight relating to his estranged daughter and his own Catholicism.
The story is narrated by Eddie (Morgan Freeman), who cleans the toilets in Frankie's gym and glares at Clint through his remaining eye.
It's a mainstream thriller, but it's littered with intrigue and loose ends. The performances and murky subdued photography are fantastic, and old pro Freeman carries the emotion with great aplomb.
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4 Films by Lukas Moodysson (Review)
4 Films by Lukas Moodysson includes the films: Show Me Love, Together, Lilya 4-Ever and finally A Hole in My Heart. This is Moodysson's critically acclaimed debut and well worth viewing.
In true Swedish fashion, Show Me depicts a story of two provincial girls coming out, and hailed by Bergman as a masterpiece.
Together features Elisabeth who is tired of mundane, suburban mediocrity. She ditches her husband and takes her children to be with her brother Goran who live on a commune, where battered idealism and long hair reigns. And where discussion on politics, friendship and free sex prevail.
Lilya 4-Ever is a heart-rendering catalogue of a 16-year old Estonian's descent into sex slavery, and describes Lilya's friendship with 11-year old Volody, himself an outcast.
Finally, A Hole in My Heart depicts the degradations of amateur porn and where bedlam prevails as social codes are abandoned and cosmetic surgery, pop psychology, politics, alienation and human emotions are ground through the mill.
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