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We Are Twisted F—ing Sister
Filmmaker Andrew Horn’s overly long paean to the 1970’s/1980’s outrageous heavy metal band Twisted Sister will be welcomed with open arms from all their hoards of fans who stuck by them religiously through the group’s very rocky musical career. It has less appeal to people who never warmed to their unorthodox style, for in the…
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Dough
In this decidedly old-fashioned movie British filmmaker John Goldschmidt lays on the schmaltz with a charming wee tale of how a small part of a traditional Jewish bakery struggles to adapt to the demands of contemporary life in London’s East End. Sixty-something-year-old widower Nat Dayn (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) is something of a curmudgeon who…
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Jim : The Story of James Foley
James Foley …. known to everyone as Jim….. was a American freelance photojournalist who was abducted in Syria in 2012 and then publicly beheaded byISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) eighteen months later. His compelling story is told in a new HBO documentary by first time director Brian Oakes who had been Foley’s…
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Eddie The Eagle
Michael Edwards better known as Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards was a charismatic British folk-hero that most Americans will never have heard of. This plasterer from a blue-collar family ignited the U.K. public’s imagination when, in this real shaggy-dog story and without any real experience, in 1988 he finagled his way into the British Olympic Team…
