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31/08/2018
Film Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
★★★★☆ The Coen brothers go West once more with their latest offering The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Netflix-produced anthologyContinue Reading
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15/11/2018
Film Review: The Girl in the Spider’s Web
★★☆☆☆ The saga of Lisbeth Salander has spanned a collective eight films and novels, meaning any new entry has theContinue Reading
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15/11/2018
Film Review: Suspiria (2018)
★★★★☆ Luca Guadagnino returns to screens this week with his long-awaited take on giallo classic Suspiria – minus much ofContinue Reading
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12/11/2018
DVD Review: Hitler’s Hollywood
★★★★☆ Hitler’s Hollywood begins not with the goose stepping and sieg heiling of Triumph of the Will, but instead with some jaunty whistlingContinue Reading
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09/11/2018
Film Review: Wildlife
★★★★☆ Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife lands not with a thud but a slow caress, to be inhaled and ruminatedContinue Reading
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09/11/2018
Busan 2018: Festival round-up
Slowly emerging from the political turmoil and boycotts it had faced the past few years, the Busan International Film FestivalContinue Reading
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08/11/2018
Film Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
★★★☆☆ As cultural curiosities go, they don’t get much more curious than Fred Rogers. A Pennsylvania pastor with a penchantContinue Reading
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07/11/2018
Ocean’s 8 and female empowerment
Featuring a star-studded cast of Hollywood’s top actresses, Ocean’s 8 is the all-female take on the Ocean’s series inspired byContinue Reading
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07/11/2018
DVD Review: Anchor and Hope
★★★★☆ While Anchor and Hope’s subject matter will undoubtedly pique the interests of a LGBTQ audience, it’s clear that directorContinue Reading
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07/11/2018
MAMI 2018: Long Day’s Journey Into Night review
★★★☆☆ Bi Gan’s follow-up to Kaili Blues is a stylish noir which drifts through a fluid world of dreams, memories and languidContinue Reading
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07/11/2018
MAMI 2018: Shadow review
★★★★☆ Famous Fifth Generation Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s latest wuxia tale based in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history is aboutContinue Reading
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06/11/2018
MAMI 2018: Grass review
★★★☆☆ A writer sits in a café listening in on conversations had over coffee and soju about serious and mundaneContinue Reading
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05/11/2018
MAMI 2018: Diamantino review
★★★☆☆ This debut feature by directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt uses humour, a mix of genres and an inaneContinue Reading
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04/11/2018
Czech100: Winter Flies review
★★★★☆ Adolescent delinquents Mára (Tomás Mrvík) and Heduš (Jan Frantisek Uher) are best friends, wiling away the hours by joyContinue Reading
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03/11/2018
Czech100: The White World According to Daliborek review
★★★★☆ Dalibor K. lives in a small house with his mother. He works a poorly-paid job in a factory, andContinue Reading
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02/11/2018
Czech100: Barefoot review
★★★★☆ Based on the autobiographical novel by Zdenek Svěrák, and co-directed with Zdenek and his son Jan, Barefoot tells the story of eight-year-oldContinue Reading