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22/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Stan & Ollie review
★★★☆☆ Inspired by the book Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours by A.J. Marriot, who also featured as a consultantContinue Reading
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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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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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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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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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09/09/2018
#LFF 2018: Out of Blue review
★★★☆☆ Based on the Martin Amis novel Night Train, Carol Morley’s Out of Blue is a metaphysical neo-noir with aContinue Reading
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01/09/2018
#LFF 2018: Suspiria review
★★★★☆ Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino doesn’t so much remake Dario Argento’s Suspiria as use the influentialContinue Reading
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15/10/2017
#LFF 2017: Loveless review
★★★★★ In 1985, Sting sang: “Believe me when I say to you / I hope the Russians love their childrenContinue Reading
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11/10/2017
#LFF 2017: The Rider review
★★★★☆ A poetic expression of hopelessness in a land of limited opportunities, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider follows a Bronco-rider fromContinue Reading
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11/10/2017
#LFF 2017: The Killing of a Sacred Deer review
★★★★☆ Two years on from The Lobster, pioneering Greek Weird Wave director Yorgos Lanthimos returns to the London Film FestivalContinue Reading
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10/10/2017
#LFF 2017: Journeyman review
★★★☆☆ Few British actors can lay claim to the kind of performance which we have come to expect and appreciateContinue Reading