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LaKeith Stanfield is a false messiah in ‘The Book of Clarence’; Johnny Depp plays the king to Maïwenn’s mistress in ‘Jeanne du Barry’; Daisy Ridley shows a dark side in ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’; ‘
...With shekels owed to an underworld kingpin, and Jesus pulling quite a crowd, a plan is hatched for Clarence to become a false messiah....
...Sax parts also featured prominently from Jake Clemons, nephew of original sideman Clarence Clemons....
...But that first half is a riot, screwball set to a delightfully skewed rhythm, Bullock the sequinned straight man to Tatum’s neurotic himbo....
...Swathed in prostheses, Murphy again plays not only the gnarled barber Mr Clarence but his patron Saul, a bad-tempered Jewish senior citizen....
...Contemporary voices narrate — among them King’s adviser Clarence Jones — but we are deep in the belly of the past. The era is tumultuous, tapped phones and bugged hotels a rare constant....
...It follows Channing Tatum’s Jimmy, a struggling father who plans to clean out the vaults beneath the Charlotte Motor Speedway on the busiest day of the racing year....
...In Ace in the Hole, Tatum stepped on people to get back to the big time. For Hunsecker, it was a raison d’être....
...This gifted Anglo-Scot lensed the Danish Dogme movies before teaming with Kevin Macdonald on The Last King of Scotland and Danny Boyle (winning a Best Cinematography Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire)....
...The film was put together by UTA with clients Lasse Hallström directing, Channing Tatum starring and Nicholas Sparks writing the book on which the screenplay was based....
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