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On Guard: Short Film Review. The pressure young athletes place on themselves can be immense, especially in solo sports where every victory or failure feels deeply personal. On Guard, the short film from writer‑director Will Calkins, explores that emotional terrain through the story of Jaime, a saber fencer whose self‑worth is tightly bound to her performance. When

Delta Goodrem Edition: Bits & Pieces – Set against the lush backdrop of the Azores, HONEYJOON is a layered dark comedy that follows  June (Mayeri) and her Persian-British mother Lela (Casar) as they travel to a romantic island for a grief anniversary, one year after the loss of June’s father, arriving with very different ideas

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An achingly bittersweet, tender and empoweringly simplistic evocation of the process of dementia.  There have been many great films about dementia and our fascination with one of humanity’s cruelest diseases has reaped cinematic rewards. Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for his role in The Father as well as Julianne Moore for Still Alice and Michael

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Cutthroat Island – A Career Shipwrecker. By Simon Thompson. Finnish director Renny Harlin’s Cutthroat Island is one of those movies that studio bosses talk about around a great campfire as a kind of haunted cautionary tale. This is a movie which killed an entire studio, multiple careers, and stopped a whole genre in its tracks

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