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Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul 2017 (7.3)

The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song, "A Little Help from My Friends". But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker's inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as "one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time" (Billy Joel's description). The film mixes Joe Cocker's own words, with rare archive. His wife (Pam Cocker) & family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker's story. The film has raw, historic, electric performance footage throughout. Extensive interviews of key people through his life include: Pam Cocker, Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone magazine editor), Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel, Rita Coolidge, Deric Dyer, Glyn Johns, and numerous others.
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Like A Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres 2021 (7.3)

Suzanne Joe Kai’s intimate documentary shows us how the Rolling Stone writer and editor defined the cultural zeitgeist of the ’60s and ’70s.
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Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin' - The Story of L.A. Woman 2012 (5.857)

“Mr Mojo Risin’” is the story of the making of the Doors’ last album with Jim Morrison “L.A. Woman”. 2011 is the 40th anniversary both of the album’s release and of the death of Jim Morrison and this programme goes into detail of how the album came about, its recording and what was happening to the band at the time. The story is told through new interviews with the three surviving Doors: Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore plus contributions from Jac Holzman, founder of their label Elektra Records, Bill Siddons, who was their manager, Bruce Botnick, engineer and co-producer of the album and others associated with the Doors at this time. The show includes archive footage of the Doors performing both live and in the studio, classic photographs and new musical demonstrations from the Doors.
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The Menu 2016 (6.7)

The Menu is a 2016 Hong Kong drama film about journalism and the sequel to the television series of the same name.
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Burning Flame is a TVB modern action drama that focuses on the duties and challenges of Hong Kong firefighters. It is the first installment in the Burning Flame series. The series was specifically filmed to celebrate TVB's 31st Anniversary and was supported by Hong Kong Fire Services Department.
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Rewind to 2019, and jewelry heist hardened criminal Chan Cho-yiu’s (Benjamin Yuen) cold-blooded shot changes four PTU officers’ destinies. Fast-forward five years, and among the four police officers, only Kwan Chi-hin (Joel Chan) is still staying with PTU. Tsui Kwok-yin (Owen Cheung) has quit his police job and become a gangster. Chi-hin and his partner So Kwok-wai (Jonathan Cheung) oversee rookie PTU officers. They assist Anti-Triad Unit Inspector Pang Wing-kei (Rebecca Zhu) in apprehending drug dealers. They again astonishingly run into Cho-yiu! Cho-yiu is determined to get even with the notorious drug lord West Kowloon King (Hugo Wong), aka Ruthless. Cho-yiu then takes revenge on him, but West Kowloon remains anarchic as bad people come from everywhere. To restore law and order, KW Anti-Triad Unit and PTU deal with the gangsters by engaging them in fierce battles. And there is no end in sight!
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The Standing N/A

A mugging gets interrupted by a guy just standing there.