Film review: Chuck ***
It says Chuck on our cinema schedules, but The Bleeder is the title on the print I watched; even when it comes to the minuscule Cyprus market, poor Chuck Wepner…
It says Chuck on our cinema schedules, but The Bleeder is the title on the print I watched; even when it comes to the minuscule Cyprus market, poor Chuck Wepner…
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What can we say about the Blitz, the air-raid campaign carried out on London by the Nazis in 1940-41? One thing we could say is that it happened almost 80…
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