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10 ISSUE 355 WWW.WEEKENDERBAHRAIN.COM Phoenix 34 Favorite Racing Films 1. Rush 2. Cannonball Run 3. Talladega Nights: Whom? The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 4. Cars 5. Days of Thunder A review of Ford v Ferrari by Ahmed Zayani EVERYONE IS A WINNER With WIN Two Movie tickets! Send your answers and your picture to [email protected] 4Let us know in one sentence: What will does the leading weekly of Bahrain go ‘Weekender’ mean to you? ahead and say it: Christian Bale is Trailer Iarguably the most versatile thespian of our generation. While Win Two many people would know him as the Optics Caped Crusader from Christopher Nolan’s triumphant Dark Knight trilogy, the man behind Vouchers! the mask has so much more to offer the viewing world audience than to be pigeonholed as Batman. Over on fire. 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In this movie, way Bale is currently sitting on one Academy Award, it is Mangold uses the same finesse and skill that made he carries simply a matter of time before he begins racking in Wolverine’s final ride such a memorable entry, himself, his Win Two more and more. with the finished product being polished and a inflictions, the little visceral spectacle. Aiding Mangold on this task is a character nuances, they all tickets to Directed by James Mangold of Logan fame, Ford frequent collaborator and cinematographer Phedon come together to give us one of the Adhari park! v Ferrari (released internationally as Le Mans 66) Papamichael who won recent critical acclaim for best performances of the man’s career and easily one of the best of 2019. I’ll just go ahead tells the story of automotive visionary Caroll Shelby his work on Nebraska. 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