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RWD reviews Truth
TRUTH : a Sony Classics newsroom drama dealing with the 2004 CBS ’60 Minutes’ Report investigating Pres. George W Bush’s military service that ended up costing veteran newsman Dan Rather his job, starring Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes the determined TV producer who wouldn’t be shaken off the trail.
RWD reviews The Lady In The Van
Imagine an even grander version of the Dowager Countess of Grantham who has fallen on hard times and now is a homeless bag woman as that is exactly how Maggie Smith is in this delightful British comedy based on a mostly true story. It’s a tour-de-force performance that sadly didn’t get the Oscar Nomination for…
Joseph Wilson : Drag is my Ecstacy
A couple of months ago we stumbled upon a extraordinary and wonderfully exhilarating short movie called “Stance” about ‘drag boxing’ which was set in a Working Men’s Club in London. It literally blew our fishnets off. It was made by Joseph Wilson a 27 year-old Brit filmmaker who is one of the leading figures in…
RWD reviews barbara
Roger reviews Christian Petzold’s 2012 thriller set in Cold-War Germany in 1980 that reunited him with actress Nina Hoss. The movie was Germany’s Official Submission for a Best Foreign Film Oscar that year.
