Shopgirl – Movie Review

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The first thing you have to ask yourself is, “Do I want to hurt now, or do I want to hurt later.” That Shopgirl is a film which poses such a question is rather uninteresting really, but the fact that it poses the question while only sideways implying that the question applies to every relationship is an impressive textual delivery. Shopgirl, much like Lost in Translation, is the story of a … [Read more...]

CQ – Movie Review

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I've had some requests to get up reviews for the films found on my 10 Great Rentals When There's Nothing To Rent, so I'm trying to get around to some of them here and there.  This one, a great, quirky little number from several years ago.     CQ (meant to be sounded out – ‘Seek You’) is a morse code ‘term’ like ‘SOS’ (meant to be sounded out – ‘Help!’), which is … [Read more...]