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Should the past be kept as just that?

Should the past be kept as just that?

After winning 70 major awards, including an Academy Award (Best Foreign Film), for his last film, A Separation, Writer/Director Asghar Farhadi is no longer just the most celebrated Iranian filmmaker a ...
All for one and one for all!

All for one and one for all!

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE MUSKETEERS (BBC). Everybody loves D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis and Cardinal Richelieu is everybody’s favourite villain. Adrian Hodges’ contemporary ...
A sentimental, moving prison drama

A sentimental, moving prison drama

Joyce Glasser reviews Starred Up (March 21, 2014) Cert. 18, 105 min. After the disappointing Stallone/Schwarzenegger prison thriller, Escape Plan, even the most avid fans of the prison genre might hav ...
Judi Dench, as always, is wonderful

Judi Dench, as always, is wonderful

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDS PHILOMENA (Fox). A well-known journalist helps an old Irish lady to track down her illegitimate son who had been sold for £1,000 fifty years previously by the nu ...