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21/08/2019
Film Review: Pain and Glory
★★★★★ When director Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) tells his estranged actor and friend Alberto (Asier Etxeandier), “It’s taken me thirty-twoContinue Reading
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09/08/2019
Film Review: Notorious
★★★★★ Notorious is a masterclass of suspense, romance and technical craft. Featuring two of the most classic screen presences inContinue Reading
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04/08/2019
Film Review: Holiday
★★★☆☆ Summer and holidays on-screen conjure up iconic images of characters bathed in a splendour of heat; Ray Winstone inContinue Reading
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03/08/2019
Film Review: Une Femme Douce
★★★★★ Touring as part of the Cinema Rediscovered festival, Robert Bresson’s 1969 classic finds its way back on to UKContinue Reading
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02/08/2019
Film Review: Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw
★★★☆☆ Supporting characters from previous Fast & Furious instalments, former DSS Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and rogue spy Shaw (Jason Statham) areContinue Reading
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29/07/2019
DVD Round-up: June and July 2019 edition
Across June and July, there has been an enormous volume of home releases, all worthy of mention. Due to theContinue Reading
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24/07/2019
Film Review: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
★★★★☆ Prolific documentary maker Nick Broomfield returns with another musical project, this time choosing a more personal topic: the relationshipContinue Reading
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24/07/2019
Film Review: The Current War
★★★☆☆ A stylishly shot period drama, charting the race to provide the world with electricity, should have been compulsive viewing.Continue Reading
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19/07/2019
Film Review: The Lion King
★★☆☆☆ After achieving critical and commercial success with 2016’s The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau once again returns to the director’s chairContinue Reading
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18/07/2019
Film Review: Varda by Agnès
★★★★★ The cinema of Agnès Varda endures beyond time. Whether this is her first feature La Pointe Courte or theContinue Reading
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18/07/2019
Film Review: The Edge
★★★★☆ On Sunday evening the world witnessed one of the greatest games of cricket ever played. Central to this matchContinue Reading
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13/07/2019
Film Review: Midsommar
★★★★☆ The follow-up to his terrifying feature debut Hereditary, writer-director Ari Aster leaves demonic possession behind in favour of festival-folk-horror in Midsommar.Continue Reading
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12/07/2019
Film Review: The Dead Don’t Die
★★★★☆ Following 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch returns to the realm of the undead with shuffling zombie hordesContinue Reading
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12/07/2019
Film Review: Vita & Virginia
★★☆☆☆ Compared to many authors, Virginia Woolf has fared relatively well on screen. Eileen Atkins’ one-woman stage show, A RoomContinue Reading
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12/07/2019
Film Review: The Brink
★★★★★ In Alison Klayman’s new political documentary The Brink, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is accompanied around theContinue Reading