In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK and on his arrival in England he bought two Super-8 cameras, two projectors and two reel to reel recorders. One set of equipment he sent to his family in India, the other he kept for himself and for 40 years he used it to share his new life abroad with those back home - images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket - his taped thoughts and observations. Back in India Yash's relatives responded with the
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SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
CertificationPG Our Rating
All time classic wonderfully filmed by Wilder, featuring great performances from Holden, as a bankrupt screenwriter seeking refuge, and Swanson, a faded star in a crumbling mansion, who pins her hopeless hopes of a comeback on the writer. Deliriously dark and nightmarish masterpiece.
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THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1975)
Certification18 Our Rating
'The Day Of The Locust' is a harrowing fable about delusion and false hope delving into the lives of those trying to achieve the glamorous lifestyle of pre-war Hollywood. The story revolves round an art director trying to get work, who falls for his young actress neighbour, her attempts to become a movie star and the men in her life. Donald Sutherland plays the estranged and deeply religious but now famously named Homer Simpson.
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TROPIC THUNDER (2008)
Certification15 Our Rating
A wildly diverse mixture of deluded stars are joined together for the ultimate (read horribly over budget) Vietnam war movie ever. From Kirk Lazarus, an obsessive five time Oscar winner who gets himself surgically darkened to play the African American character to Tugg Speedman, a wilting action superstar tormented by his lack of ability, all are ill-equipped to deal with the everyday world, let alone the drug lord infested jungle the director unwittingly drops them in when he decides on some ba
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