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"Borgia"

season two in 1080hd

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Marta Gastini

"The Americans"

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Keri Russell

"The Affair"

Ruth Wilson

Northern Soul

(2014)

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Northern Soul is a 70s set British drama about school boy John (Elliot Langridge) who is having a hard time fitting in with his peers. One day, he finally takes his mother's advice and goes to the youth club where the people there are dancing to American soul music, which John had never seen or heard before and instantly becomes attracted to it when he sees Matt (Josh Whitehouse) dancing up a storm. John and Matt become friends and end up living together at Matt's house after John quits school and they take up a job at the local cake factory. But what they really want to do is become DJs running dance nights as that is all they talk about. Now joined by mad man Sean (Jack Gordon), they look to start up their own nights and impress local hotshot DJ Ray Henderson (James Lance). Meanwhile, they are trying out meth, getting themselves into trouble and John manages to finally start talking to the girl he has a crush on, Angela (Antonia Thomas). As time goes on, John and Matt begin to have different ideas as to how they go about DJ with John looking to take it seriously while Matt is all about getting a great crowd on the dance floor and is quite profane to this end. This causes friction between the two.

OK drama that is an interesting look at the dance halls of the 70s in the northern UK and how they were changing, but the movie is much better when it focuses on the music scene than all the hardship and violence in between. Much of that didn't feel sketched out at all, particularly how John's worrisome parents don't seem to care when he leaves home to live with someone he just met.

Antonia Thomas 1080p film clip (collage below)

Continuing with the movies from the south of the border, which, in this case, is the Mexican/US border. The majority of the movies come from Brazil, but there are also one from each of Columbia and Puerto Rico. We will see those two today:

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