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News of the World (2020) - Paul Greengrass

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January 25, 2021 1:00pm

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Dan and Mike review the recently released film News of the World starring Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel.  Directed by Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, Bourne Identity), News of the World is an American Western drama based on a 2016 novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles.  Set in 1870, the story follows Tom Hanks' character, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, as he travails the western plains reading the news from town to town while on a quest to return Zengel's character, Johanna Leonberger, to her remaining kin.

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