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21/05/2018
DVD Review: The Old Dark House
★★★★☆ On a dark and stormy night, self-conscious genre tropes abound in James Whale’s riotously fun 1932 gothic chiller TheContinue Reading
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21/05/2018
DVD Review: Inherit the Wind
★★★★★ Based on the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925 and adapted from Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s play ofContinue Reading
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21/05/2018
DVD Review: Breakheart Pass
★★☆☆☆ While a Yankee army train stops to restock its water supply, John Deakin (Charles Bronson) is caught cheating atContinue Reading
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19/05/2018
Cannes 2018: Kore-eda’s Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or
The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival came to a close earlier today with Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda winningContinue Reading
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19/05/2018
Film Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story
★★☆☆☆ From director Ron Howard, Solo: A Star Wars Story blasts onto our screens starring Hail Caesar’s Alden Ehrenreich asContinue Reading
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19/05/2018
Film Review: 2001: A Space Odyssey
★★★★★ Stanley Kubrick’s visionary masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey returns to the big screen in a beautiful, newly-restored 70mm print,Continue Reading
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19/05/2018
Cannes 2018: The Wild Pear Tree review
★★★★★ The Wild Pear Tree is another towering cinematic experience from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The story of aContinue Reading
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19/05/2018
Cannes 2018: Ayka review
★★★★★ Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka follows a young woman over five days bitterly cold days in a city she doesn’t reallyContinue Reading
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18/05/2018
Cannes 2018: Knife + Heart review
★★★☆☆ Yann Gonzalez follows up 2013’s You and the Night with Knife + Heart, another retro flick featuring lashings ofContinue Reading
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18/05/2018
Cannes 2018: Capernaum review
★★★★☆ Lebanese actress and director Nadine Labaki’s third directorial feature, Capernaum, is a stirring and essential social-realist drama about livesContinue Reading
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18/05/2018
Cannes 2018: Whitney review
★★★★☆ One year on from the release of Nick Broomfield’s Whitney: Can I Be Me, Kevin MacDonald’s Whitney proves thatContinue Reading
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17/05/2018
Cannes 2018: Under the Silver Lake review
★★☆☆☆ It Follows director David Robert Mitchell returns with his third feature, the execrable Under the Silver Lake, starring AndrewContinue Reading
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17/05/2018
Film Review: On Chesil Beach
★★☆☆☆ Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle) and Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan) are young, beautiful and in love. They’ve just married andContinue Reading
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17/05/2018
Cannes 2018: Dogman review
★★★☆☆ Italian director Matteo Garrone returns to the Cannes Croisette with a movie a world away from the English-language fantasy TaleContinue Reading
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17/05/2018
Cannes 2018: At War review
★★★★☆ Stéphane Brizé and Vincent Lindon are fast becoming the Scorsese and De Niro of French social realist cinema. TheirContinue Reading