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.