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11/12/2018
Film Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
★★★★☆ No costumed crime fighter has been rebooted and re-imagined more times than Spider-Man, so we might be forgiven for sighingContinue Reading
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13/09/2018
Film Review: Free Solo
★★★☆☆ Among the most extreme of thrill-seekers, Alex Honnold is a climber who favours the “free solo” method, ascending cliffsContinue Reading
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15/05/2018
Film Review: The House That Jack Built
★★☆☆☆ Persona non grata and middle-aged man terrible Lars von Trier returns to UK cinema screens with serial killer blackContinue Reading
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13/12/2018
Film Review: The Last Movie
★★★☆☆ The Last Movie, the classic “lost” film from Dennis Hopper, is a postmodern muddle containing occasional flashes of brilliance,Continue Reading
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11/12/2018
DVD Review: Kusama – Infinity
★★★☆☆ Kusama – Infinity delves into the life and work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama tracing her story from aContinue Reading
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07/12/2018
Film Review: The Old Man & the Gun
★★★★☆ Director David Lowery’s latest is based on the real-life shenanigans of Forrest Tucker, played here by Hollywood great RobertContinue Reading
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01/12/2018
Film Review: Creed II
★★★☆☆ After winning the World Heavyweight Championship under the fatherly tutelage of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), Adonis ‘Donny’ Creed (MichaelContinue Reading
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01/12/2018
Film Review: Disobedience
★★★☆☆ Hot from the success of A Fantastic Woman, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio returns with the sexually charged, emotionally restrained Disobedience. Rachels WeiszContinue Reading
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29/11/2018
Film Review: Three Identical Strangers
★★★★☆ Tim Wardle engagingly recounts the fascinating story of a set of triplets who were separated at birth and reunitedContinue Reading
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29/11/2018
Film Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet
★★★★☆ Where Wreck-It Ralph focused on the highs and lows of arcades games, specifically relating to the characters who inhabit them,Continue Reading
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29/11/2018
Film Review: Anna and the Apocalypse
★★☆☆☆ When Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg created the zom-rom-com in 2004 with their beloved Shaun of the Dead, evenContinue Reading
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27/11/2018
Criterion Review: A Raisin in the Sun
★★★★★ Based on Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play of the same name, David Petrie’s A Raisin in the Sun is at once aContinue Reading
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23/11/2018
Film Review: Shoplifters
★★★★☆ Often compared in his distinctly Japanese minimalism to legendary compatriot Ozu, Hirokazu Kore-eda is a filmmaker whose graceful yetContinue Reading
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23/11/2018
Film Review: Assassination Nation
★★★★★ Set in modern-day Salem, the events of Assassination Nation bear more than a passing resemblance to the town’s infamous hystericalContinue Reading
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23/11/2018
Radioactive superheros: superpowers or death?
Comic book fans around the world have been truly spoilt in the last few years, with so many Marvel andContinue Reading
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23/11/2018
Ranking the fashion sense of James Bond supervillains
When you hear a story about the most fashionable front men in films, everyone’s favourite Double-Oh agent might spring toContinue Reading
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19/11/2018
Film Review: The Workshop
★★★☆☆ Alexei Sayle once cautioned that you should never enter a workshop that doesn’t have a vice in it. FrenchContinue Reading