LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | LEXGO.COM WEEKENDER: STAYING IN FRIDAY | AUGUST.10.2012 | 23 DVDs TUNE IN REVIEWS AND NEWS TELEVISION ‘Marley’ tells it like he was By Rob Lowman Los Angeles Daily News Marley is a fascinating 2½ -hour biographical documentary about the great Jamaican reggae singer. The film, directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), hardly makes the artist out to be a saint. Bob Marley was stubborn, hard at times toward his children and not always faithful to his wife. But Macdonald gives us a sharp portrait of a complex man who more than 30 years after his death remains a towering figure in pop music as well as a cultural one. Marley T-shirts are plentiful today as both a symbol of peace and, because he was an advocate of marijuana, of getting high on FRANK OCKENFELS | AMC Colm Meaney, left, and Anson Mount star in Hell on Wheels, back for Season 2. something other than music. Marley retails for $26.98 or $29.98 Blu-ray. 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