THE SECRETS – 2007 – An Israeli Film With Fanny Ardant and Ania Bukstein Explores Faith and Feminism – NYTimes.com

August 2, 2012 by Netflowers

THE SECRETS – 2007 – An Israeli Film With Fanny Ardant and Ania Bukstein Explores Faith and Feminism – NYTimes.com Ania Bukstein in “The Secrets.” When Faith Meets Feminism By STEPHEN HOLDEN Published: November 25, 2008 CONTAINS SPOILERS – BEWARE – An excellent film that we really enjoyed, and highly recommend. 5/5*****STARS.  The characters are well written and developed, you will get to know these characters and what makes them tick,  their motivations or the lack of motivation will not […]

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Desert Hearts (1985) – IMDb

August 1, 2012 by Netflowers

Desert Hearts (1985) 96 min  -  Drama | Romance  -   7 March 1986 (USA) 6.8 Your rating:  10/10   Ratings: 6.8/10 from 1,976 users Reviews: 40 user | 10 critic It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She’s unsatisfied with her marriage… See full summary » Director: Donna Deitch Writers: Jane Rule (novel), Natalie Cooper Stars: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau and Audra Lindley | See full cast and crew via Desert Hearts (1985) – IMDb. PLOT SPOILER – BEWARE –  WE […]

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Elizabeth (1998) – IMDb- Review – Cate Blanchett – Photos

July 24, 2012 by Netflowers

      Top 5000 Elizabeth (1998) 124 min  -  Biography | Drama | History  -   22 November 1998 (USA) 7.5 Your rating:  10/10   Ratings: 7.5/10 from 47,648 users   Metascore: 75/100 Reviews: 388 user | 135 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch. Director: Shekhar Kapur Writer: Michael Hirst Stars: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Christopher Eccleston SPOILER ALERT…..Cate Blanchett […]

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Lip Service – Review – Laura Fraser – Ruta Dedmintas – Cush Jumbo – Lesbian Themed Drama – Glasgow

July 24, 2012 by Netflowers

LIP SERVICE   2010-2012  TV- A superior well written drama about young women living in Glasgow.  The photography and the pacing is brilliant, the women are gorgeous and very sexy.  I did not watch L-Word, but I see  ”Lip Service” being compared to the L-Word as the UK’s version of that particular TV show.  I can say that I liked it and have always enjoyed Laura Fraser’s acting since I first saw her in “Nina’s Heavenly Delights“.  Lip Service is […]

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Frozen River (2008) – IMDb – The dangers of Human Smuggling – A Superior Film.

July 22, 2012 by Netflowers

Frozen River (2008) 97 min  -  Crime | Drama  -   31 October 2008 (Venezuela) 7.2 Your rating:    -/10   Ratings: 7.2/10 from 14,898 users   Metascore: 82/100 Reviews: 85 user | 172 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com   A superior film about 2 women caught up in their own poverty, and forced to reach out and embrace the lucrative enterprise of human smuggling.  A dangerous undertaking because of the obvious chance that on the Frozen River the ice could very well crack and the risk […]

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Control (2007) – IMDb

July 3, 2012 by Netflowers

Storyline Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one […]

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Cat Run (2011) – IMDb

June 26, 2012 by Netflowers

Storyline The Andorran hooker and single mother Catalina “Cat” Rona is hired to participate in an orgy in Montenegro with other escorts and powerful men and the American Senator William Krebb. Something goes wrong with the politician and all the girls are murdered by the security of the host to avoid witnesses. However Cat escapes and brings a hard-drive with classified information with her. There is a manhunt for Cat and the cruel assassin Helen Bingham is hired to retrieve […]

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The Last Wave – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

June 11, 2012 by Netflowers

      The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s: a rural school in the desert, the main street of an outback town, a traffic jam in the city, all being affected by unusually adverse weather conditions that suddenly appear. Only the local Aboriginals seem to recognize the cosmological significance of these weather phenomena. During one of these “freak rainstorms” in Sydney, an altercation occurs among a group of Aboriginals in […]

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Fish Tank (2009) – IMDb

June 8, 2012 by Netflowers

Storyline Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne’s slick boyfriend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing. Written by don @ minifie-1 via Fish Tank (2009) – IMDb. Related articles Fish Tank (mrmovietimes.com) Fish Tank ~ Reeled In By the Bait […]

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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (TV 2006) – IMDb

June 1, 2012 by Netflowers

Jesse Stone:   Is an excellent series of films starring Tom Selleck.  Much better than I expected,  a quiet and pensive Tom Selleck, much like the parts that most of us have seen him in the past.  Very enjoyable.  I highly recommend the Jesse Stone Series. Storyline When the body of a fourteen years old teenager is found in the margin of the river in Paradise, Massachusetts, the Chief of Police Jesse Stone and his officer Simpson seek clues in […]

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True Blood: The Complete First Season: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, — AMAZON.COM

May 30, 2012 by Netflowers

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Alan Ball’s True Blood series works well for television, as it has enough sensationalism to tantalize and enough story girth to make the viewer care about the characters. That one can finally invest emotion into monsters, including an undead Civil War victim, a transformer who can shapeshift into various animals, and a female mind reader, speaks volumes about America’s willingness to accept fantasy. Of course, television has always produced good fantasy shows (I Dream of Jeannie), but […]

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Incendiary (2008) – IMDb

May 30, 2012 by Netflowers

    Storyline Grief, guilt, and betrayal. In North London, a young mother dotes on her four-year-old son and lives in a modest flat with her husband, a cop in the bomb squad. The Arsenal football team is their religion. On May Day, a major terrorist attack brings tragedy while she is in the arms of a rich reporter who lives over the road. She wishes she were dead. In grief and guilt, she pursues revenge, faces betrayal, experiences delusions, […]

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The Deep End (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

May 29, 2012 by Netflowers

Margaret Hall (Swinton) and her family live a seemingly upper middle class life in Tahoe City, California. Her husband is a pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Constellation. She is startled to discover that her son Beau (Tucker), a high school senior, has been having a sexual affair with 30 year-old Reno, Nevada night club owner Darby Reese (Lucas). Margaret visits Reese’s nightclub, The Deep End, to demand that he stay away from her son. That night, Reese secretly visits […]

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Red Road (2006) – IMDb

May 29, 2012 by Netflowers

A unique look at revenge.  Loved this film, the story, the actors, and the feel of the Glasgow estate “Red Road“.  I recommend this film it was a good watch, I give it 9/10. Whilst working as a CCTV operator in Glasgow’s working-class Red Road estate, Jackie sees a face from the past, a face that she thought would no longer haunt her dreams. Keeping her distance, and with the use of her CCTV cameras, she follows the face and […]

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) – IMDb

May 28, 2012 by Netflowers

Storyline A doctor becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies. This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient’s daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick Nightingale is playing, he learns about a secret sexual group and decides to attend one of their congregations. However, […]

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Ned Kelly (2003 film)

May 27, 2012 by Netflowers

The film started out with a young Ned Kelly rescuing a young boy from drowning. It then pans to the Australian bush with Ned talking about his father. He then awakens in the Australian outback and sees a white mare. He rides it into town, only to be arrested and subsequently imprisoned in 1871, for supposedly stealing the horse, even though it had actually been stolen by Wild Wright, Ned’s friend. Two years later Ned is released and comes home […]

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To Die For (1995) – IMDb

May 26, 2012 by Netflowers

Storyline Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do ANYTHING to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary. Written by Tad Dibbern via To Die For […]

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The Cry of the Owl (2009) – IMDb

May 26, 2012 by Netflowers

The Cry of the Owl (2009) – IMDb. Following a painful divorce from his wife Nickie, Robert Forester leaves New York and moves to a small Pennsylvania town, where he develops an obsession with the seemingly happy, 23-year old Jenny Thierolf. As a way of easing his own discontent with life, he begins spying on her through her kitchen window, and is surprised when she invites him into her house after spotting him one night. Jenny sees their chance meeting as an act of […]

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Levity (2003) – IMDb

May 26, 2012 by Netflowers

Levity (2003) The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley… See full summary » via Levity (2003) – IMDb. An all-star cast play vivid characters in Levity, about an ex-con named Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thornton) who finds the sister (Holly Hunter) of the young man he killed many years ago, seeking forgiveness. By accident, he gets involved with a preacher (Morgan Freeman) who has his own […]

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Close to Home (2005) – IMDb

May 25, 2012 by Netflowers

Close to Home (2005) Karov La Bayit (original title) 98 min  -  Drama  -   16 March 2006 (Israel) Rebellious and outgoing Smadar can’t stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened… See full summary » Directors: Vardit Bilu, Dalia Hager via Close to Home (2005) – IMDb. Related articles Bandidas (2006) – IMDb (netflowers.wordpress.com) The Lover (1992) – IMDb (netflowers.wordpress.com) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) – IMDb (netflowers.wordpress.com) Little Fish (2005) – IMDb (netflowers.wordpress.com) Fingersmith (TV Series 2005) – IMDb (netflowers.wordpress.com) The Island (2005) – IMDb […]

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DISCO PIGS – 2001

May 25, 2012 by Netflowers

The movie revolves around the intense relationship of two teenagers, Darren and Sinead, nicknamed “Pig” and “Runt“. Pig and Runt were born at the same hospital at nearly the same time and grow up right next door to each other. This brings about a very close relationship between the two that borders on telepathic. The two talk in their own “language.” They live in their own world and barely communicate with the world around them. However, up until their seventeenth […]

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Red Tails (2012) – IMDb

May 25, 2012 by Netflowers

Storyline Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky – even as they battle discrimination on the ground. It’s a tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history. Written by 20th Century Fox via Red Tails (2012) – IMDb. Related articles Anthony Hemingway On Directing “Red Tails” for […]

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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) – IMDb

May 24, 2012 by Netflowers

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) – IMDb. Storyline This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting “Girl With A Pearl Earring” by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Little is known about the girl in the painting, it is speculated that she was a maid who lived in the house of the painter along with his family and other servants, though there is […]

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The Lover (1992) – IMDb

May 24, 2012 by Netflowers

The Lover (1992) – IMDb. Storyline It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of […]

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McLeod’s Daughters (TV Series 2001) – IMDb

May 23, 2012 by Netflowers

McLeod’s Daughters (TV Series 2001) – IMDb. Storyline After the death of his wife and son during childbirth, Claire’s father, Jack McLeod, married city girl Ruth Silverman. Tess was the product of this tempestuous but short-lived relationship. Growing up, the two girls had been very close but were separated when Ruth took 5-year-old Tess back to the city. Twenty years later, after Jack’s sudden death, his daughters each inherit half of heavily mortgaged Drover‘s Run. Tess, who recently lost her […]

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Red Dust (2004) – IMDb

May 22, 2012 by Netflowers

Red Dust (2004) – IMDb. Storyline Police officer Dirk Hendricks (Bartlett) files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo (Ejiofor), a member of the South African Parliament who can’t remember the torture he once endured as a captive political activist. South African-born attorney Sarah Barcant (Swank), meanwhile, returns to her homeland to represent Mpondo, as well as Steve Sizela, Mpondo’s friend who arrested along with him and never heard from again. Related articles Insomnia (2002) – IMDb (netflowers.wordpress.com) My Summer of […]

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Sour on Syfy, Caprica Fans Launch Apple Uprising | Underwire | Wired.com

May 21, 2012 by Netflowers

Sour on Syfy, Caprica Fans Launch Apple Uprising | Underwire | Wired.com.

Categories: DRAMA, FILMS, SCI-FI, TV POSTERS, TV REVIEWS, TV SERIES • Tags: SCI-FI, Television, TV SERIES

Insomnia (2002) – IMDb

May 21, 2012 by Netflowers

Insomnia (2002) – IMDb. Storyline Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this “solution” only multiplies the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner’s death. He’s also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an […]

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Erin Brockovich (2000) – IMDb

May 20, 2012 by Netflowers

Erin Brockovich (2000) – IMDb. Erin Brockobich~ 2000~ True Story ~ strong movie about (systemic) institutional corruption. One of my favorite Julia Roberts movies. Storyline Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While […]

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Boys Don’t Cry (1999) – IMDb

May 20, 2012 by Netflowers

Boys Don’t Cry (1999) – IMDb. BOYS DON’T CRY ~ Strong movie, true story, Excellent Hilary Swank. Storyline Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who’ve never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he’s one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he’s […]

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Kansas City (1996) – IMDb

May 20, 2012 by Netflowers

Kansas City (1996) – IMDb. Kansas City ~ one of my personal favorites, brilliant movie making by the Great Robert Altman. (Netflowers) Storyline Robert Altman‘s jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930′s Kansas City. When Blondie O’Hara’s husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local politician in an attempt to blackmail […]

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Death and the Maiden (1994) – IMDb

May 20, 2012 by Netflowers

Death and the Maiden (1994) – IMDb. Storyline Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the […]

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Heavenly Creatures (1994) – IMDb

May 18, 2012 by Netflowers

Heavenly Creatures (1994) – IMDb. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme met in school during the 1950s. Instant best friends, they proceeded to spend every minute possible together, often writing about a fantasy land of their own invention. More and more estranged from their respective families, the two girls realise that they are extremely different from most other people, and agree to take any steps necessary to ensure that they are not seperated. The two families are increasingly concerned about the […]

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Heaven (2002) – IMDb

May 18, 2012 by Netflowers

Heaven (2002) – IMDb. Love, retribution and redemption. Devastated by her husband’s death from a drug overdose, Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, tries to bring justice to the biggest drug dealer in Turin when the local police ignore her information about him. In building a home-made bomb and setting off a plan that fails miserably, her status changes from young widow to that of a criminal in custody. Young police officer Filipo descends into Philippa’s life, changing […]

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Charlotte Gray (2001) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Charlotte Gray (2001) – IMDb. Charlotte, a young Scottish woman, who has studied in France, is living in London during World War II. Within weeks she both falls in love with a young pilot and is recruited by the Secret Service to act as a courier for the French Resistance. However her mission behind enemy lines becomes a personal mission to find her lover who has been shot down. Assigned to a Communist Resistance group she encounters acts of betrayal […]

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Little Fish (2005) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Little Fish (2005) – IMDb. In Sydney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him […]

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The Reader (2008) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

The Reader (2008) – IMDb. THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from “The Odyssey,” “Huck Finn” and “The Lady […]

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Sister My Sister (1994) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Sister My Sister (1994) – IMDb. I watched this movie because I am a fan of Jodhi May, & Julie Walters, & Joely Richardson. Based on a true story two maids, sisters, work in a French household by day and at night and on weekends the become lovers. The Madam of the house confronts the two sisters late one afternoon after they had been obviously engaged in love making. She fires them, and the sisters strike out and kill the […]

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The Nightcomers (1971) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

The Nightcomers (1971) – IMDb. Prequel to the Henry James classic “Turn of the Screw” about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care. Written by Humberto Amador In Victorian England, the teenagers Flora and her brother Miles have just lost their parents in a car accident in France. Their tutor decides to leave the children alone in their huge mansion under the care of the […]

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The Night Porter (1974) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

The Night Porter (1974) – IMDb. A dark and Sexually charged story of a former teenage Nazi concentration camp inmate, Lucia, and the S.S. Officer who was her punisher/lover, Max. They accidentally meet again in a Vienna hotel in 1957 where Max works as the Night Porter. They resume their sadomasochistic relationship, although Max’s former S.S. Comrades have something different in mind for them. The story unfolds like dance of death….KEYWORDS;.. Hotel, Concentration Camp, Nazis, Human Target, Fear, Forced Sex, […]

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Ash Wednesday (2002) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Ash Wednesday (2002) – IMDb. 1983, Hell’s Kitchen on Ash Wednesday. There are rumors that Francis Sullivan’s younger brother Sean, dead for three years, has come back to life. Or more to the point maybe he wasn’t dead, if so then old scores still need settling, putting Fran and Sean in danger. The local mob boss is being pressured , he is Fran’s protector; Sean’s wife, who thinks she’s a widow, has gotten on with her life, but Sean has […]

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The Piano (1993) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

The Piano (1993) – IMDb. A Scottish woman and her daughter are sent off to New Zealand in an arranged marriage. She cannot speak, she uses sign language and also her daughter translates. This Scottish woman is an accomplished pianist, and she has brought her piano with her. She lands on the shores of New Zealand and her husband to-be is not there to meet her. She and her daughter are left on the beach with all of her belongings. […]

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V for Vendetta (2005) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

V for Vendetta (2005) – IMDb. To say that I loved this movie would be an understatement. Natalie Portman, I’m a huge fan, Love everything she does. Hugo Weaving, always amazed at his range and ability. To be able to act in a mask for the entire movie and give the character so much humanity is just absolutely amazing, Hugo Weaving was just great. Stephen Rea was the plodding gum-shoe, another fantastic actor. I did not read the original graphic […]

Categories: DRAMA, Entertainment, FILMS, MOVIES, STRONG FEMALE LEAD • Tags: drama, entertainment, Evey, Films, Guy Fawkes, Hugo Weaving, Internet Movie Database, MOVIES, Natalie Portman, November 5, Stephen Rea, STRONG FEMALE LEAD, V for Vendetta

The Killing (TV Series 2011) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

The Killing (TV Series 2011) – IMDb. In Seattle, Det. Sarah Linden is on what is supposed to be her last day on the job. She and her son Jack are supposed to leave that evening to join her fiancé in Sonoma. Her replacement, Det. Stephen Holder, is ready to take over but they answer a call from a patrol car who have found a bloodied sweater in a field. When the missing girl, Rosie Larsen, is found in the […]

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Girl, Interrupted (1999) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Girl, Interrupted (1999) – IMDb. Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents’ friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina […]

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Desert Hearts (1985) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Desert Hearts (1985) – IMDb. Helen Shaver is beautiful in this movie. She plays Prof. Vivian Bell, staying temporarily in Reno, NV in order to get a quick Divorce. Prof Bell while staying at a Dude Ranch meets the owner’s adopted Daughter Cay Rivers, played by Patricia Charbonneau. Patricia is also very attractive and a openly gay female. Cay and Prof. Bell become friends and are soon attracted to each other. This is a beautiful and tender love story between […]

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Monster’s Ball (2001) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Monster’s Ball (2001) – IMDb. SPOILER ALERT…..A prison guard has a son who commits suicide. A wife of a prisoner who is executed at the prison has a son who is run over by a hit & run driver. The prison guard witnesses the mother trying to pick up her son in the driving rain, he helps and takes her and the son to the hospital where he dies. The prison guard is a bigot, the woman he just helped […]

Categories: DRAMA, Entertainment, FILMS, MOVIES • Tags: academyaward, drama, entertainment, Films, Halle, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Monsters Ball, MOVIES, Olivier Martinez, Peter Boyle, Prison, STRONG FEMALE LEAD

The Tudors (TV Series 2007–2010) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

The Tudors (TV Series 2007–2010) – IMDb. SPOILER ALERT…..Season 1, I call Getting Rid of Katherine-I really loved this TV Series of “THE TUDORS”. I am glad that I rented it. I have watch most of the movies about “Elizabeth I” and there was always something missing, I could not understand how with the death of Anne Boleyn, her beheading to be more precise, how Elizabeth was still allowed to ascend to the throne. Why was there so much hatred […]

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Changeling (2008) – IMDb

May 17, 2012 by Netflowers

Changeling (2008) – IMDb. CHANGELING 2008~ SPOILER ALERT~ Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) is happy when her young missing son, Walter is brought back home. But when Christine rejects the Walter who was returned to her, because he is now three inches shorter, and is circumcised, (Walter was not circumcised) the police captain (Jeffrey Donovan) has her committed to an asylum for questioning the LAPD. This is a story that drew me in and kept my attention from the very beginning. […]

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Fingersmith (TV Series 2005) – IMDb

May 16, 2012 by Netflowers

Fingersmith (TV Series 2005) – IMDb. “FINGERSMITH” ~ A cracking good tale. A dramatic/thriller. The perfect bookend to “Tipping The Velvet“. This is the only movie that made me yell at my TV, when there was a tremendous plot twist, and I can’t say what I said then .   I grabbed my stomach and doubled over in laughter. Just thinking about this movie puts a smile on my face. I really, really love “Fingersmith”. Sally Hawkins is wonderful as […]

Categories: DRAMA, Entertainment, FILM, MINI SERIES, TV SERIES • Tags: Elaine Cassidy, entertainment, Film, Fingersmith, Internet Movie Database, lgbt, Maud Lilly, Sally Hawkins, Television program, Tipping The Velvet, tv-mini series