RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: In County Durham, violent strikes are taking place against the closure of British coal mines by Margaret Thatcher. Billy Elliot is an 11-year-old boy raised by a loving yet strict father who encourages his son to train boxing at a local club. However, Billy does not quite find his place in the ring. […]
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RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: An adaptation of James Jones’s famous novel, chronicling the fate of a company of American soldiers fighting in the Battle of Guadalcanal. We witness the landing on the island, which unexpectedly meets resistance from the Japanese. The Americans fight bloody clashes with the enemy and evacuate the survivors. In a situation where the […]
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RECOMMENDATION: Bartek Pulcyn: A cult film for the generation of today’s 40-year-olds, watched passionately and repeatedly on VHS tapes. A moving story of the titular thirty-year-old fighting an uneven battle against fate and family trauma; the sole caretaker of an extremely obese mother, a mentally disabled brother, and two sisters. The film that launched a […]
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RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: A drama directed by Peter Weir, set in an elite boarding school, Welton Academy, in the 1950s. The main character is John Keating (Robin Williams), a new English teacher who uses unconventional teaching methods, inspiring his students to think independently, discover their passions, and live life to the fullest in keeping with the […]