Director Laurie Lynd’s comedy is one peel of canned laughter shy of a sitcom, witnessing the trials and tribulations of closeted couple Eric (Tom Cavanagh) and Sam (Ben Shenkman) when they agree to take care of orphan Scot (Noah Bernett).
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Quite simply one of the finest television programmes of the moment, Mad Men
beautifully evokes the period and the entrenched moods of 60s New York, as
seen through the eyes of the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency and its impeccably tailored staff.
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Adapted from the seminal comic book series created by Alan Moore and
illustrated by Dave Gibbons, Watchmen is an epic battle of good versus evil,
played out against an alternative vision of mid-80s America.
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Some bankers are greedy bastards. Tom Tykwer’s fast-paced conspiracy thriller peddles the obvious as glossy fiction.
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John Patrick Shanley adapted and directed Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis all to Oscar nominations in this story of two 60s nuns who suspect a priest of getting a little too friendly with an altar boy.
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