Director – Clair Titley – 2023 – UK – Cert.12a – 90m ***** How a man’s incarceration in a room, broadcast on TV, became a media sensation in Japan– out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 29th Before The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998), which would be released later the same year, a couple of […]
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The Contestant
- Post author By Jeremy Clarke
- Post date November 29 2024
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