FilmWeek: ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘Storks,’ ‘Queen of Katwe’ and more, plus a closer look at 'Amanda Knox'

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Wade Major, and Charles Solomon review this week’s new movie releases including an updated “Magnificent Seven," the animated feature “Storks,” a Disney family movie based in Uganda titled “Queen of Katwe” and more. We'll also remember the late Curtis Hanson and have a conversation with Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn, co-directors of “Amanda Knox." TGI-FilmWeek!

FilmWeek: ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘Storks,’ ‘Queen of Katwe’ and more, plus a closer look at 'Amanda Knox'

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Wade Major, and Charles Solomon review this week’s new movie releases including an updated “Magnificent Seven," the animated feature “Storks,” a Disney family movie based in Uganda titled “Queen of Katwe” and more. We'll also remember the late Curtis Hanson and have a conversation with Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn, co-directors of “Amanda Knox." TGI-FilmWeek!

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Wade Major, and Charles Solomon review this week’s new movie releases including an updated “Magnificent Seven," the animated feature “Storks,” a Disney family movie based in Uganda titled “Queen of Katwe” and more. We'll also remember the late Curtis Hanson and have a conversation with Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn, co-directors of “Amanda Knox." TGI-FilmWeek!

FilmWeek: ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘Storks,’ ‘Queen of Katwe’ and more

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Wade Major, and Charles Solomon review this week’s new movie releases including an updated “Magnificent Seven” starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and Byung-Hung Lee to name just a few; the animated feature “Storks” including voices of Jennifer Aniston and Keegan-Michael Key; a Disney family movie based in Uganda titled “Queen of Katwe” and more. We also remember the late film director Curtis Hanson.

TGI-FilmWeek!

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This Week's Hits

• " Queen of Katwe "
• " Audrie & Daisy "
• " Landfill Harmonic "
• " The Lovers and the Despot "

Mixed Reviews

• " The Magnificent Seven "
• " The Dressmaker "
• " My Blind Brother "
• " Goat "

This Week's Misses

• " Storks "
• " Beauty and the Beast " - Foreign [France] Fantasy

Guests:

Wade Major , Film Critic for KPCC and host for IGN’s DigiGods.com

Claudia Puig , Film Critic for KPCC and "The Wrap"

Charles Solomon , Film Critic for KPCC and Animation Scoop and Animation Magazine

Netflix documentary features Amanda Knox's version of murder in Italy

Was she a cold-blooded psychopath who brutally murdered her roommate or a naive student abroad trapped in an endless nightmare?

A Netflix original documentary “Amanda Knox,” explores the notorious case that made headlines around the world. Twice convicted and twice acquitted by Italian courts of the brutal 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox became the subject of global speculation as non-stop media attention fed the public's fascination through every twist and turn of the nearly decade-long case.

Featuring unprecedented access to key people involved and never-before-seen archival material, the film shifts between past to present, exploring the case from the inside out in exclusive interviews with Amanda Knox, her former co-defendant and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and Daily Mail reporter Nick Pisa. The film premieres next Friday, September 30, on Netflix.

Guests:

Rod Blackhurst , Director of “Amanda Knox”

Brian McGinn , Director of “Amanda Knox”