Homeless young Toby ends up sleeping in the cupboard of neurotic, failing, sleazy paparazzi Les. However a chance meeting with equally mentally challenged starlet K'harma starts his meteoric rise to stardom in this fine satire on celebrity and the business opportunities that go with it.
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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
Knowing that his father had been some sort of WW2 war hero writer James Bradley set out to discover the truth about him and the fellow marines who raised the flag over Iwo Jima for the now infamously 'fraudulent' photgraph. We follow this ironically socially heterogeneous group of men through the horrors of one of the most bloody battles of WW2, interspliced with the early return home of three of the 'heroes' to act as politically manipulated cheerleaders for further fundraising to continue the
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ONE HOUR PHOTO (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
Robin Williams plays the most convincing reason to start developing your own holiday snaps. Williams plays a lonely and disturbed photo technician who becomes obsessed with an idyllic young family while developing their pictures. One Hour Photo is a deeply scary thriller held together by an awesome performance by Robin Williams who excels as the deeply twisted protagonist.
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REAR WINDOW (1954)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Hitchcock's masterpiece. A news photographer is confined to his apartment by an injury and spends his days watching the neighbours. He comes to believe that he is witnessing the preparations for a murder. Based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. Suspense, ambiguity and voyuerism; total brilliance!
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THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
A self-narrated and consequently potted history of the producer Robert Evans, a man who rose from nowhere and made possible some of the greatest movies of the 1970s. Not least of which being ‘The Godfather'. A prodigious mover and shaker, Evans' rarefied world went belly up when the scandals started to come thicker and faster than the successes. The kid stays in the picture is a fascinating insight into the world of the Hollywood power broker.
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THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (2009)
Certification12 Our Rating
An observational documentary focussing on the editor-in-chief of American Vogue Magazine, Anna Wintour, and following the putting together of the magazine's largest ever edition: the September 2007 issue. Consistently involving this is an excellent insight into both the fashion industry and the world of Wintour, whose story has been waited for ever since 'The Devil Wears Prada' first hit the bookstores and then the big screen.
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