Nicky’s Family

Films in Brief: 1/18/14

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We play a bit of catch up looking at the found footage horror Devil's Due , the animated animal heist flick The Nut Job , Ralph Fiennes look at Charles Dickens The Invisible Woman , a Stephen King retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, a screening of the Lebanese war drama Zaytoun , the continued popularity of the documentary Nicky's Family , and free return engagements from some films that played the European Union Film Festival last year.

Nicky’s Family Review

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Nicky's Family is a doc that should appeal to WWII buffs who like more than a simple regurgitation of facts and crave more personal recreations that tells of the exploits of British stockbroker who ended up saving 669 Jewish children from occupied Czechoslovakia.