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FILMS OF THE WEEK Jason Solomons The Good Shepherd Director: Robert De Niro Starring: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, John Turturro, William Hurt Certificate: 15 Time: 2hrs 47mins Letters From Iwo Jima Director: Clint Eastwood Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazanuri Ninomiya Certificate: 15 Time: 2hrs 21mins School For Scoundrels Director: Todd Phillips Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder Certificate: 12A Time: 1hr 40mins The Number 23 Director: Joel Schumacher Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston Certificate: 15 Time: 1hr 38mins
Robert De Niro's first film a director was A Bronx Tale, an intimate portrayal of Italian-American street life. It felt like the sort personal project typical an actor feeling his way behind the camera. However, it has taken 14 years for De Niro to sit in the director's chair again, and he has clearly widened his ambitions in the interim.See the full content of this document
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The Cold War Bore
The long-awaited result is The Good Shepherd, a film that ranges across decades and continents,tracing the life secret agent Edward Wilson loosely based on real spycatcher James Angleton and the beginnings of the CIA, an organisation that emerges from the ashes of the Second World War to create the frostiness of the Cold War.
Matt Damon plays Wilson, ...See the full content of this document
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