- 1972’s Deep Throat brought ‘adult’ movies into the mainstream, turning Linda Boreman into a briefly flickering star and making $100 million-plus for the film’s allegedly Mafioso backers.
Little but drugs, abuse and heartache followed for Boreman, most of it at the hands of her seedy manager/lover, Chuck Traynor – until she finally took control of her life.
In the period-perfect biopic Lovelace, directing partners Epstein and Friedman cast a wonderfully convincing Amanda Seyfried as Boreman/Lovelace and Peter Sarsgaard as Traynor, and cleverly split the story into two separate accounts of Boreman’s experience.
This involving production features winning turns from Adam Brody as porn legend Harry Reems, James Franco as a besotted Hugh Hefner, and a virtually unrecognisable Sharon Stone as Linda’s mother.
Lovelace is showing at Harbour Lights Picturehouse from today.
- Thomas & Friends; King of the Railway chugs its way onto the big screen at Vue cinemas nationwide from today.
In the latest adventure, Thomas, James, and Percy are thrilled to have been given a surprise mission by the most important man in town, the Earl of Sodor. With plenty of new friends, the team are over the moon until disaster strikes and new friend, Stephen, goes missing! Follow the team as they head off on their journey to try and find Stephen.
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