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WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY

Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Robert B Weide. Everything you always wanted to know about Woody Allen but were afraid to ask? The slightly neurotic, bespectacled and self-effacing Woody Allen is one of the few modern auteurs in the cinema, and this documentary is an exhaustive and comprehensive look at the man and his [...]

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MARGARET

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kenneth Lonergan Stars: Anna Paquin, J Cameron Smith , Jean Reno, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon, Matthew Broderick, Jeannie Berlin, Kieran Culkin, Alison Janney. Margaret is another post 9/11 drama that explores complex issues of right and wrong, guilt and justice, retribution, and is almost operatic in its structure. Lisa Cohen [...]

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GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD.

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Martin SCorsese Documentary.   From Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese comes this epic, superbly crafted documentary exploring the personal and professional life, times and musical legacy of former Beatle George Harrison, who died in 2001. The youngest of the Beatles, Harrison’s own talents as a guitarist and songwriter were often [...]

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TAXI DRIVER

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Martin Scorsese Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris. Thirty-five years after it first burst onto the screen, Martin Scorsese’s powerful and blistering drama Taxi Driver gets a re-release. One of the seminal American films of the ’70′s,  it shows that [...]

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SHUTTER ISLAND

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Martin Scorsese Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Max Von Sydow, Michelle Williams, John Carroll Lynch, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Ted Levine, Jackie Earle Haley, Elias Koteas. The fourth collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island is a gripping psychological thriller, which contains a couple of unexpected [...]

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