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WolfmanOz at the Movies #92
Jack. Jack Nicholson is one of cinema’s all-time greatest actors. Now retired, he has throughout his five-decade career, appeared in 80 films, for which he has received numerous accolades, including 3 Academy Awards (including 12 nominations) 3 BAFTA Awards (including 7 nominations) and six Golden Globe Awards (including 17 nominations). He has also received the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #11
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown . . . is the final line from Roman Polanski’s brilliant 1974 mystery thriller Chinatown. Polanski is obviously a polarising film-maker given that in 1977 he was arrested and charged with raping and drugging a 13-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to a lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor…