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Wartime Britain – Three Complete Dramas on DVD

  • By Alice Maltin
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  • February 6, 2012 1:00 AM
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Stories inspired by real-life events of World War Two continue to inspire dramatists and filmmakers, especially in the UK…and I never tire of watching them. Here are three solid examples recently released as a boxed DVD set by Acorn Media.

The Woman In Black—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • February 3, 2012 1:00 AM
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As ghost stories go, this one isn’t bad, but the filmmakers take an awfully long time getting to the actual plot, content to spend the first half of the movie doling out “boo!” moments…more than I’ve ever experienced in one motion picture! Most of them are pretty effective, but after the third or fourth I felt I’d had my fill for a while.

Declaration Of War—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • February 2, 2012 6:02 PM
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It’s been decades since television created a genre that pundits labeled “disease-of-the-week” movies. Cable networks such as Lifetime have kept the form alive, because such stories are natural fodder for relatable drama, while medical TV shows have never gone out of style.

Quality Time With Martin Scorsese

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • February 1, 2012 12:14 AM
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Imagine spending two and a half hours talking to Martin Scorsese! The Santa Barbara International Film Festival gave me that gift on Monday night, and the evening-long tribute at the historic Arlington Theatre was everything I hoped it would be. My only frustration was not having even more time so we could cover all of Scorsese’s films and go off on as many tangents as we pleased.