Geraldine Chaplin

Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) (1972)

Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) (1972)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 20, 2012Dystopian Future Where Childbirth is Outlawed
SF film set in a future that is so overpopulated that childbirth is treated as an executable crime. Although sometimes naive in its speculations, this creates a dystopian scenario that imaginatively turns many familiar aspects of the present on their head
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A Christmas Carol (2004)

A Christmas Carol (2004)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 11, 2006Miser's Redemption Musical
TV movie version of the oft-filmed Charles Dickens tale featuring Kelsey Grammer as a very theatrical Scrooge. This tells the story as a musical but also manages to be surprisingly faithful to the original
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The Monk (2011)

The Monk (2011)
Rating: ★★
Apr 15, 2014Monk's Temptation by the Devil
The Monk is a sordid classic of 18th Century Gothic literature, filled with crazed lusts and Catholic guilt and damnation. However, in the hands of French director Dominik Moll, all the tortured sexuality has been watered down and the story stuffed as a costume drama
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The Forbidden Room (2015)

The Forbidden Room (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Oct 3, 2015Tapestry of Surreal Tall Tales
Guy Maddin has perfected a blend of silent movie stylistics and hilariously surreal melodrama. This is a Guy Maddin film on acid, a sumptuously madcap fantasia of visuals wound around a tapestry of tall tales
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