I read somewhere last April that Gerald McMorrow‘s Franklyn was a possible Cannes ’08 entry, but nope. Then I was thought it might turn up at last September’s Toronto Film Festival…sorry. Then I thought it might appear at Sundance ’09….no-go. And now it’s opening in the UK next month with no U.S. release date in sight. Face it — there must be something wrong with it.
Which reminds me — where’s Beeban Kidron‘s Hippie Hippie Shake?
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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