Set in the Brussels club scene, State Like Sleep is a noir mystery about a young grieving widow named Katherine…
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I hate to admit it now but, until very recently, I was one of those moviegoers who hated when others…
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You may know screenwriter Beau Willimon as the creator of the American version of House of Cards, the hit Netflix…
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