ANORA
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(Oscar Winner)
Did you know that over the years 17 actresses have won Oscars for playing prostitutes!
Along comes a virtually unknown young actress named Mikey Madison to play yet another woman of the streets and guess what?
She wins an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Know what else? She deserves it.
Madison plays Ani, a stripper who earns a little on the side when her customers want more.
She becomes enamored by one of her customers, the son of a rich Russian who hires her for a week of fun and games at his expensive New York apartment.
A visit to Vegas ends up at a wedding chapel and the two return to NYC as husband and wife.
Daddy finds out and sends his henchmen to collect the spoiled brat and quickly annul the marriage.
Ani resists in one of the funniest scenes we’ve seen in ages, as she takes on three enormous bad guys.
The rich kid escapes, goes on a bender, as the bodyguards and Ani try to find him in another hilarious series of events.
The ending is both funny, sweet and clever.
If you missed this movie and want to see what all the praise is about, get over to the Showcase or rent it.
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(Cerebral Spy Whodunnit)
Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play British intelligence officers who happen to be married to each other.
When she is suspected of betraying her nation, he is faced with the choice of turning her in or covering up for her.
There are other suspects, and BLACK BAG quickly turns into a cerebral whodunnit.
The movis opens with the couple inviting three other people to dinner and concludes with the same setting, where all is revealed. There’s lots of dialogue and very little action as George tries to find the mole and save jolly old England from a secret code being leaked and thousands of innocent people dying.
Good performances, but occasionally hard to follow with all that spy talk and English accents.
* * * ½
(Grim, eerie murder mystery)
If you like your murder mysteries on the grim and eerie side, this one from Germany is for you.
Brünhilde Blum owns a funeral home in a small ski resort town. She is married to a local cop and has two children and a father-in-law who lives with them.
Her husband is killed on his motorcycle by a hit and run driver and Blum sets out to find the killer, only to discover some nasty goings-on around town.
The series takes a number of turns as more bodies pile up as suspects are unturned.
Blum is an interesting and very dark character with some skeletons (literally) in her past and her present.
The series will give you the creeps as you witness Blum doing her handiwork with corpses.
Great ending.
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