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Maurice - 1987

Maurice – 1987

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Maurice – 1987 Maurice is a 1987 British romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, based on the 1971 novel Maurice by E. M. Forster. The film stars James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert Graves as Alec. The supporting cast includes Denholm Elliott as Dr Barry, Simon Callow as Mr Ducie, Billie Whitelaw as Mrs Hall, and Ben Kingsley as Lasker-Jones. The film was produced by Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, and written […]

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Behind the Candelabra - 2013

Behind the Candelabra – 2013

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Behind the Candelabra – 2013 Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 American biographical drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It dramatizes the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace and the relationship that he had with Scott Thorson. It is based on Thorson’s memoir, Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace (1988).  Richard LaGravenese wrote the screenplay. Jerry Weintraub was the executive producer. It premiered at

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Lonesome – 2022

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Lonesome – 2022 Lonesome is an Australian drama film, directed by Craig Boreham and released in 2022.  The film centres on Casey (Josh Lavery), a young man who grew up on a ranch in rural Australia but moves to Sydney when he is rejected by his father after being outed as gay. The film’s cast also includes Daniel Gabriel as Tib,

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Hypochondriac – 2022

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Hypochondriac – 2022 A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma. Hypochondriac, and the phrase that haunts the character of Will (Zach Villa) as he spirals deeper and deeper down into paranoia that his body’s betraying him and a

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The lord of the Ants – 2022

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The lord of the Ants – 2022 Il signore delle formiche Il signore delle formiche is a 2022 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Amelio. The film, presented in competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, traces the story of the writer and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti, protagonist between 1964 and 1968 of a very controversial judicial process, the so-called “Braibanti case”, played by Luigi Lo Cascio. In 1959 Aldo Braibanti, former partisan and

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Spoiler Alert – 2022

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Spoiler Alert – 2022 Spoiler Alert is a 2022 American romantic drama film starring Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge as two lovers, one who watches the other’s final months before their death from terminal cancer. The film, based on the 2017 memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello, is directed by Michael Showalter and written by David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage. Parsons plays Ausiello, and Aldrige plays

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