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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Can You Ever Forgive Me? review
★★★☆☆ In the 1990s, biographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), frustrated with lack of interest in a mooted project about vaudevilleContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF Interview: Zheng Kai, star of Shadow
Zheng Kai is one of China’s biggest actors, but in the West he’s hardly known. Promoting his latest film, Shadow, aContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Sew the Winter to My Skin review
★★★★☆ Hiding out in a cave for around a decade, legendary South African outlaw John Kepe (here played with unhingedContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Lords of Chaos review
★★★★☆ Lords of Chaos charts the evolution of Norwegian black metal and the increasingly bitter rivalry between two major playersContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Assassination Nation review
★★★☆☆ Assassination Nation plugs America and the age of social media full of bullet holes until the gun goes click.Continue Reading
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16/10/2018
#LFF 2018: They Shall Not Grow Old review
★★★★★ Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old uses the latest in digital effects, 3D, frame-rate tinkering and colouration toContinue Reading
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16/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Outlaw King review
★★★★☆ Following up his 2016 western Hell or High Water, director David Mackenzie takes us back to medieval Scotland with Outlaw King,Continue Reading
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15/10/2018
#LFF 2018: All the Gods in the Sky review
★★★★☆ Things have been quiet on the French Extremity front in recent times, but fear not! A director calling himselfContinue Reading
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14/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Sorry to Bother You review
★★★☆☆ Ambitious. Witty. Original. Surreal. Ridiculous. These all describe writer Boots Riley’s directorial debut Sorry To Bother You, and yetContinue Reading
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13/10/2018
#LFF 2018: The Nightshifter review
★★★☆☆ In Dennison Ramalho’s phantasmagorical morality tale The Nightshifter, a cuckolded coroner’s assistant with the ability to communicate with theContinue Reading
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13/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Been So Long review
★★★★★ Tinge Krishnan’s Been So Long is a musical delight of heart-warming songs, sardonic British humour, and fantastic performances. Set inContinue Reading
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12/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review
★★★★☆ Down Terrace director Ben Wheatley returns to the horror of kinship with Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (working title Colin YouContinue Reading
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15/09/2018
#LFF 2018: Widows review
★★★★★ At first glance, the heist-movie plot of Widows couldn’t be further from the arthouse work of director Steve McQueen’sContinue Reading
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12/09/2018
#LFF 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk review
★★★★★ Following 2016’s Moonlight, the unparalleled Barry Jenkins returns to the festival circuit with If Beale Street Could Talk, aContinue Reading
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09/09/2018
#LFF 2018: Beautiful Boy review
★★★☆☆ Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen brings his talents to bear on the true story of Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet),Continue Reading