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10/08/2018
Film Review: Heathers
★★★☆☆ Another week, another anniversary celebration of a firm favourite from the decade that continues to be more influential acrossContinue Reading
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09/08/2018
Film Review: The Meg
★★★☆☆ Loosely based on a series of trash sci-fi horror novels, The Meg surges into as many multiplexes as it can muster thisContinue Reading
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09/08/2018
Film Review: The Heiresses
★★★★☆ This modest but polished film follows an older woman’s journey of self-discovery as her partner is sent to jail.Continue Reading
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09/08/2018
Film Review: Sicilian Ghost Story
★★★☆☆ Based on the real-life abduction of Giuseppe di Matteo, Sicilian Ghost Story combines teen romance, realist crime drama and gothic fable.Continue Reading
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08/08/2018
DVD Review: Birdman of Alcatraz
★★★★☆ While serving a life sentence and in indefinite solitary confinement, convicted murderer Robert Stroud began raising birds. In soContinue Reading
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08/08/2018
DVD Review: Flesh + Blood
★★★☆☆ It’s the year of our Lord 1501 and in Western Europe the venal and the powerful wage war. InContinue Reading
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02/08/2018
Film Review: The Producers
★★★★☆ Two schnooks decide to produce a play that’s bound to fail as a way of fleecing their investors. SuchContinue Reading
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02/08/2018
Film Review: Maurice
★★★★☆ In a post-Call Me By Your Name world where the LGBT community has seen a film boom according toContinue Reading
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02/08/2018
Film Review: The Escape
★★★★☆ The Escape is an emotional exploration of a fractured marriage, but something much darker is at its core: depressionContinue Reading
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02/08/2018
Criterion Review: King of Jazz
★★★☆☆ Costing a pricey-for-the-time $2 million, John Murray Anderson’s 1930 film was a Technicolor extravaganza but an almighty flop onContinue Reading
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31/07/2018
Criterion Review: F for Fake
★★★★★ Ostensibly a documentary about art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally slippery biographer, Clifford Irving, Orson Welles’ lastContinue Reading
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27/07/2018
Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Fallout
★★★★★ IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and long-time associates Luther (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg) are on theContinue Reading
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26/07/2018
Film Review: Iceman
★★★☆☆ Inspired by the famous frozen Ötzal mummy discovered in 1991, Felix Randau’s third feature tells the story of theContinue Reading
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26/07/2018
Film Review: Apostasy
★★★★☆ Daniel Kokotajlo’s debut Apostasy is a remarkable and authentic mediation on religion, belief, family and loss. Single mother Ivanna (SiobhanContinue Reading
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25/07/2018
Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
★★★★☆ Bring It On director Peyton Reed returns with Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, a heartfelt family comedy inContinue Reading