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FilmWeek: ‘Escape Room,’ ‘Communion,’ ‘The Vanishing’ and a conversation on ‘The Artist’
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Jan 4, 2019
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FilmWeek: ‘Escape Room,’ ‘Communion,’ ‘The Vanishing’ and a conversation on ‘The Artist’

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson and Wade Major review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also play an excerpt from our post-screening conversation about the making of 'The Artist' with FilmWeek critics Lael Loewenstein and Wade Major as well as film historian Marc Wanamaker.

(l to r) Jay Ellis, Taylor Russell, Nick Dodani, Deborah 
Ann Woll and Logan Miller  star in ESCAPE ROOM.
Jay Ellis, Taylor Russell, Nick Dodani, Deborah Ann Woll and Logan Miller star in Sony Pictures' ESCAPE ROOM.
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David Bloomer/Sony Pictures
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson and Wade Major review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also play an excerpt from our post-screening conversation about the making of 'The Artist' with FilmWeek critics Lael Loewenstein and Wade Major as well as film historian Marc Wanamaker.

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson and Wade Major review this weekend’s new movie releases.
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