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Nanking: Review

With the exception of films like the documentary IN THE NAME OF THE EMPEROR and the exploitative BLACK SUN, and the late Iris Chang's acclaimed book The Rape of Nanking, surprisingly scant attention has been devoted to the brutal 1937 destruction of the then Chinese capital of Nanking by the Japanese occupiers. An conservatively estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians of all ages were murdered along side Chinese soldiers, and many after have been subjected to horrifying tortures... read more

Nanking: TV Guide News

First Bennifer, Now This: Affleck's U.K. Directorial Debut Delayed | Today's News: Our Take | 9/14/2007
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney has yanked Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, from the London Film Festival, where it was to have had its U.K. premiere, because its plot too closely mirrors the unfolding real-life mystery surrounding Madeleine McCann, a youngster who went missing in May in Portugal. Although Mr. Jennifer Garner's flick takes place in Boston, not Portugal, and is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane (of Mystic River), the Mouse still maintains that it has postponed the movie's debut for "the right reasons." Meaning, so far as I can tell, stupidity. Gone Baby Gone will get an American release Oct. 19. Provided nobody goes missing in Sweden. read more

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