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A Decade After His Death, Michael Jackson’s Lawyer Continues to Milk His Legacy

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By Ed Potton Verified
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In 2012 I met John Branca, Michael Jackson’s lawyer of 40-odd years and the brains behind Jackson’s estate, which is worth an estimated $2.4 billion. Branca, who is worth about $100 million himself, began working for Jackson in 1980 and five years later helped him seal his famous purchase of the rights to the Beatles’ songs. When we met he had just collaborated with the director Spike Lee on a documentary about Jackson’s Bad album.
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Anora Reviews

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By Sean Baker, Ed Potton Verified, Johnny Oleksinski Verified, Robbie Collin Verified
| Metacritic
Anora starts in the first act as this Cinderella, romance story with a sex worker getting the dream life of marrying a rich boy. It's fast-paced, loud, and visually chaotic with all the excessive partying and gratuitous sex. It then changes tone completely in the second act where it slows down and starts being more comedic. The scene at the house is quite funny and entertaining because of its absurdity.
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Inside Jonathan Glazer’s Radical Re-invention of The Holocaust Film

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By Ed Potton Verified
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You won’t see a more meticulously made film this year than The Zone of Interest — or a more disquieting one. Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz family drama is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis, but that’s the only loose thing about it. The British director took almost a decade to research and re-enact the story of Rudolf Höss, the SS officer and then the longest-serving commandant of the concentration camp in occupied Poland where more than a million were killed.
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John McEnroe's journey from "brat" to family man

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By Ed Potton Verified
| The Week (India) Verified
John McEnroe’s favourite quote in McEnroe, the bracingly honest documentary that released on July 15, comes from his wife, Patty Smyth: “I married a bad boy who became a really good man.” McEnroe says he has had plenty of therapists. Some of them court-appointed—he was ordered to see an anger-management counsellor after his divorce from Tatum O’Neal. “That was really beautiful,” McEnroe, 63, says with a grin via Zoom from his home in New York. Many would agree with Smyth.
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The inside story on the band whose songs were everywhere in the 1990s

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By Ed Potton Verified
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Compay Segundo, of the Buena Vista Social Club, in 2007.
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Antony Beevor is Joining Forces with Ridley Scott

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By Ed Potton Verified
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Soviet soldier Maria Shalneva stands in the rubble following the Battle of Berlin, spring 1945. It’s a period of history Antony Beevor knows well. Antony Beevor is trading the page for the screen, joining forces with Ridley Scott for a wide-ranging series on W.W. II’s final year March 24, 2021 Reading Time: 5 minutes The secret is out. For the past year and a half three big beasts of British storytelling have been collaborating on a television series that could change the way we see war on-screen.
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The Flames of Corruption

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By Ed Potton Verified
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Strength in numbers: relatives of the 64 young victims of the nightclub fire march in commemoration three years after the tragedy in downtown Bucharest, in 2018. A Romanian documentary might be the most explosive film of the year. And an Oscar front-runner November 21, 2020 Reading Time: 5 minutes On October 30, 2015 the Romanian metal band Goodbye to Gravity played a show at Colectiv, one of the most popular nightclubs in Bucharest.
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Good News for Kids! – Air Mail

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By Ed Potton Verified
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Young actresses bring unfiltered British girlhood to the screen; a baby goes waterskiing; and a Cape Town octopus forges an unlikely friendship September 24, 2020 Reading Time: 7 minutes 1. By Ed Potton Faces of Britain: the stars of Rocks. From left, Anastasia Dymitrow, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Ruby Stokes, Kosar Ali, Bukky Bakray, Tawheda Begum, and Afi Okaidja. A gaggle of teenage girls lark about on the rooftop of an estate in east London, singing, rapping, dancing and laughing.
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