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Sir Ian McKellen, who has mastered a dazzling panoply of Shakespearean roles on stage and is considered one of the most serious screen talents of his generation, is to star in a low-budget zombie costume drama set in the rural backwaters of Britain.
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The Ghost (15, Roman Polanski, 128mins)
Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Robert Harris novel is highly entertaining on two levels, as a steadily gripping conspiracy thriller and as a dryly witty and pointed political satire. Ewan McGregor stars as an unnamed ghostwriter hired to liven up the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan).
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City of Life and Death
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