HD 92 min
The Wipers Times
Director: Andy De Emmony
Stars: Ben Chaplin, Patrick Fitzsymons, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from officious Colonel Howfield but with backing from sympathetic General Mitford they produce twenty-three issues of a satirical magazine - its articles represented on screen in black and white - which boosts morale and even gets mentioned in the Tatler. The press is destroyed by a German shell but another is found and the paper's title changed to fit in with wherever the regiment is deployed. Pearson and Roberts are both awarded gallantry medals but when Roberts is only offered the job of crossword compiler by the sub-editor he moves to Canada as a prospector while Pearson marries and opens a...
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Taken Away
Director: Michael Feifer
Stars: Chelsea Ricketts, Julie Warner, Michael Nouri
Vicky has a baby when she is 18. Her father whos a powerful politician did not want the birth of his daughters baby to destroy his political career so he illegally has the baby put up for adoption. When she realizes this Vicky takes the adoptive parents to court and sues them for...
FHD 1h55m
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