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The Newspaperman : The Life & Times of Ben Bradlee
We’ll be hearing a great deal this winter about the legendary Editor of the Washington Post who was largely credited with taking down President Richard Nixon in 1974 as Ben Bradlee is the focus of two major movies. In January he’ll be portrayed by Tom Hanks in The Post a fictionalized account of the Watergate…
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Happy End
If you are at all familiar with the work of the two-time Oscar nominated Austrian filmmaker Michael Hanake then you will know that the very last thing he ever gives us is a happy end. This new movie of his, essentially a rather disparate domestic melodrama that focuses on a wealthy bourgeois dysfunctional family living…
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Everyone will Love Simon
20th Century Fox have just released the first teaser trailer of what could be one of the cutest coming-our stories of 2018. Love, Simon is an American comedy-drama directed by Greg Berlanti (Dawson’s Creek) and based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. The film stars Nick Robinson, (Jurassic World) as Simon, a 17-year-old closeted gay high school student forced…
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David LaChapelle comes to Town
The fine-art photographer David LaChapelle is making a stop on his World Tour in Miami to promote a two-volume project to complete his five-book, career-spanning anthology. In Lost + Found, Part I, LaChapelle unveils a visual record of the times we live in. Together with Good News, Part II, it represents a sublime concluding chapter to…
