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Naked DVD Review

At the center of Naked is David Thewlis as Johnny, one of the most kinetic performances ever filmed and a complex character if there ever was one. When the film begins, Johnny rapes a woman in an alley and then steals a car. But Thewlis turns him into something far more than just a thug, he’s a prophet of the apocalypse and a representative of anger in the British lower class, an antihero for his time and place as much as Travis Bickle was for 1970s New York....  read more

Another Year Review

Writer/director Mike Leigh (Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies, Topsy-Turvy) takes us through a year-in-the-life of a rather ordinary London couple and their relationships with family and friends.  read more

Happy-Go-Lucky

In Happy-Go-Lucky, Poppy (Sally Hawkins) makes her own charmed life in London...  read more