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Dir: Marina Zenovich. US. 2016. 102minsDetailing a high-profile rape case in which the rush to judgment significantly outpaced the calm gathering of facts, the smoothly riveting Fantastic Lies lays out the sexual assault scandal that ensnared and smeared the Duke University mens lacrosse team in 2006, triggering nationwide scorn even though the players were ultimately exonerated.Even for those familiar with the story
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Producer Edward Pressman and director Mary Harron are teaming up for the first time since American Psycho on the Gothic horror The Moth Diaries.Rising British star Lily Cole and Scott Speedman will star
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