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No./ 6 No big deal! Just recreating the Sistine Chapel

TELLING THE NEAR-unprecedented story of Pope Benedict XVI quitting his job, had an immediate problem. The film, from director Fernando Meirelles and starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, required long stretches of filming in the Sistine Chapel, where papal elections take place.

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The Suicide Squad (Empire, December) looks very male and very white. It will be interesting to give it the once-over with the Bechdel-Wallace test and view the film through the lens of diversity. ANN, NUGENT, TAS From what we could see, the Squad

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