Articles by Alan Bacchus

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  Morning Glory

  Roger Michell

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2011

  "From the director of Notting Hill and the writer of The Devil Wears Prada," wasn't what attracted me to this film, but the fact that Roger...

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  Carlos the Jackal [Blu-Ray]

  Olivier Assayas

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2011

  The Blu-Ray cover of this exciting new release looks like a cross between Terminator Salvation and a robot character from Transformers. It'...

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  Casino Jack and the United States of Money

  Alex Gibney

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2011

  I'm only a casual follower of American politics and know very little of the complex system of lobbying, wherein third-party organizations h...

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  Nowhere Boy [Blu-Ray]

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2011

  The title of this film of John Lennon's youth and his founding of the Beatles is an appropriate play on words. One: Lennon-McCartney song "...

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  Mesrine: Part 1 Killer Instinct

  Jean-François Richet

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2010

  French international criminal Jacques Mesrine gets his life story told on film in a rare two-part feature event. Perhaps he's famous in Fra...

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  Salt [Blu-Ray]

  Phillip Noyce

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2010

  On the Blu-Ray release, one of the featurettes included refers to director Phillip Noyce as "the master of the political thriller." I'm sur...

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  The Bridge on the River Kwai

  David Lean

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2010

  I once met a WWII veteran who was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp not unlike the one depicted in this film. Not surprisingly, his opinion...

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  Marwencol

  Jeff Malmberg

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2010

  The title of this film certainly doesn't roll off the tongue. In fact, it's a made up word by the film's subject, Mark Hogancamp, an extrao...