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Movie Review: Mom’s lost it, Dad’s “rescued” her and Kids Give Chase — “A Kind of Madness”

It must be the lucid moments that hurt the most, the ones that can remind those with dementia or the other madnesses of old age of just what they’ve lost and what a fog they’re trapped in the rest of … Continue reading

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Movie Review: South Africans bungle their overreaction to “The Shakedown”

“The Shakedown” is an intermittently amusing dark comedy about blackmail and the “accidents” that happen when inexperienced folks overreact to it. An over-achieving “wellness and medical” insurance broker irks his dopey mistress and she threatens to expose him, wrecking his … Continue reading

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