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Trash **** (2014, Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura) – Movie Review

Rickson Tevez and Eduardo Luis play Rafael and Gardo, trash-picking Brazilian boys from Rio’s slums, who find a wallet in their local garbage dump. When the cops show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet’s return, […]

Jan, 15

City of God [Cidade de Deus] ***** (2002, Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga, Seu Jorge) – Classic Movie Review 1194

Director Fernando Meirelles’s 2002 classic is an extreme but absolutely brilliant and utterly nerve-wracking Brazilian thriller, in which two Rio boys, brought up together in the Sixties, fight it out on different sides of the […]

May, 09

Moonraker *** (1979, Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel) – Classic Movie Review 952

Director Lewis Gilbert’s spoofy 1979 James Bond movie Moonraker is the fourth to star Roger Moore, this time on a mission to investigate the mid-air theft of a space shuttle. Strangely enough, he discovers that […]

Mar, 21

Neighbouring Sounds [O Som ao Redor] **** (2012, Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings) – Movie Review

Both in scale and running time this is a truly epic, anxiety-propelled thriller from Brazil, set in its rundown metropolis of Recife, in a street where some rich folks are carefully guarding their nice properties […]

Mar, 20

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