Movie:i Daniel Blake
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In Theaters This Weekend: A New Jackie Chan Film and Award Contenders Get Wide Releases
It’s the first weekend for new movies in 2017, and there’s a big sampling available if you feel like hitting the theaters.
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Cannes Report: 'I, Daniel Blake' Is a Moving Depiction of Life on the Economic Edge
It’s merely the first time we’ll see the pugnacious, proud, good-hearted Daniel (an excellent Dave Johns who’s also a stand-up comic) metaphorically beat his head against a welfare system that stymies and punishes the people it’s supposed to help. British director Ken Loach is known for his social realist style and has triumphed at Cannes before — his 2006 war drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley won the Palme d’Or.
