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Lionsgate’s: UNLOCKED
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Every so often I am sent a screener code by a studio and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing a film that will have a limited release. I love this, of course, because it makes me feel like a real insider. This time it was Lionsgate who emailed me about a Spy thriller called UNLOCKED. It stars Noomi Rapace (Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series) John Malkovich, Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom and Toni Collette (who looks just like Annie Lennox in this movie). At first I didn’t understand the title until I watched an interview with Rapace, who plays Alice…
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Tribeca Film: SPARROWS DANCE
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Sparrows Dance, written and directed by Noah Buschel, has the thoughtful sensibility of a foreign film – the structure, the coloring and handling of the film felt as if I should be reading subtitles. The protagonist (Marin Ireland) suffers from the panic disorder, agoraphobia. I call her the protagonist,because the character is never named. I’m sure there are other movieswith a nameless main character, and if you think of one, please leavea comment, but the only other film that I can think of, is my very favorite – Hitchcock’s Rebecca. So “She” hasn’t left her apartment in over a year, we see her on her…