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Paul Duane’s feature documentary Barbaric Genius tells the story of John Healy – wino, chess prodigy, author of a classic memoir, and forgotten man. Once a media darling for his charisma and aura of violence, he’s spent the past twenty years living in extraordinary isolation, embittered and angry.

In the history of movies so shockingly bad you can’t help loving them, Showgirls is right up there at the very top. With its terrible script, gratuitous nudity, ridiculous characters and awful acting, it should be virtually unwatchable – but perhaps because of all of the above, Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 cult classic is an utterly enjoyable, totally hilarious romp through the back-stabbing backstage of Las Vegas’s show circuit.

Esmeralda – Bolshoi Live Opens: October 09 Live Act The Poet Gringoire, sentenced to be hanged, is saved by the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda who agrees to marry him. Archdeacon Frollo, torn between his love for God and his obsession with the gypsy girl, sends his henchman Quasimodo to capture her. Esmeralda is rescued by [...]