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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…
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Hail, Caesar!
For their latest collaboration the multi-Oscar winning Coen Brothers have produced a full-blown comedy that, like many of their films, is based around a botched crime job, although in this instance they treat this as a rather insignificant plot twist which they never really bother to follow through. Instead the focus is on an over-worked…
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Peter De Rome : Grandfather of Gay Porn
Peter de Rome was one of the very first gay pornographer filmmakers who made small intimate and highly erotic movies in the early 1960’s when it was still illegal to be gay let alone partake in homosexual acts in public. He was an Englishmen who emigrated to New York in the 1950’s lured by the…
