Cinema Therapy Review

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2012 Top 10 Cinema Therapy Films

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1. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film directed by Benh Zeitlin and written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and Delicious. Faced with her hot-tempered father’s fading health and flooding in her ramshackled bayou community, a six-year-old girl struggles to be […]

Homeland: The Series

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Claire Danes’s performance as an off-the-rails federal agent may be the best thing about Homeland, but it’s certainly not the only thing to admire about a show that’s the visual equivalent of a page-turner. The focus here is on the specter of domestic terrorism. When Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), missing and presumed dead […]

Obsession

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This is a long overlooked movie with a young John Lithgow and Genvieve Bujold and Cliff Robertson. The music is chilling and the scenes of Italy and New Orleans add to the suspense. In 1959, Michael Courtland (Robertson), a New Orleans real estate developer, has his life shattered when his wife Elizabeth (Bujold) and young […]

The Pelican Brief

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After two Supreme Court justices are assassinated by a professional assassin (Stanley Tucci), law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) suspects the real motive might be greed, not politics. Based on this belief, she writes a legal brief and shows it to her law professor and lover Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard). He passes a copy of […]