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19/02/2019
Film Review: Chi-Town
★★★☆☆ Selected for last year’s SXSW, Nick Budabin’s compelling fly-on-the-wall sports documentary Chi-Town (available now on iTunes) follows Chicago-born African-AmericanContinue Reading
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03/02/2019
Film Review: Alita: Battle Angel
★★★★☆ A long-time James Cameron project, the king of the world handed over the reins of Alita: Battle Angel toContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
Film Review: Lords of Chaos
★★★★☆ 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
Film Review: They Shall Not Grow Old
★★★★★ 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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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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10/09/2018
DVD Review: Witness for the Prosecution
★★★★☆ While not amongst the greater, more celebrated titles in Billy Wilder’s acclaimed filmography, his big screen adaptation of AgathaContinue Reading
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07/09/2018
Film Review: Under the Wire
★★★★☆ Chris Martin’s Under the Wire provides haunting testament and tribute to journalists Marie Colvin and Paul Conroy, as theyContinue Reading
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28/06/2018
Film Review: Vagabond
★★★★★ Back in UK cinemas to mark a BFI retrospective of the French New Wave director, Agnès Varda’s acclaimed 1985 road movieContinue Reading
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19/05/2018
Film Review: The Wild Pear Tree
★★★★★ 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
Film Review: Capernaum
★★★★☆ 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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17/05/2018
Film Review: Dogman
★★★☆☆ Italian director Matteo Garrone returns to UK cinemas this week with a movie a world away from the English-language fantasyContinue Reading