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The Girl

Premiering Saturday, The Girl is the first of two high-profile biopics of the master filmmaker to hit screens this season. The other, simply titled Hitchcock, is a larger-budget feature with a whiff of Oscar bait, yet there’s room enough for both. While that forthcoming film focuses on the making of 1960’s Psycho, The Girl concerns […]

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Robin of Sherwood: Set 1

No one — at least not in America — mentions Michael Praed, who starred in the title role of the British television series “Robin of Sherwood” in the mid-1980s. Perhaps Acorn Media’s release of its first 13 episodes on Blu-ray will help change that. It’s not that Praed’s acting makes him an iconic Robin — in fact, […]

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