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15/10/2018
DVD Review: Salvador
★★★☆☆ Based on the devastating Salvadoran civil war of 1980-1992, and told from the perspective of American photojournalist Richard BoyleContinue Reading
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15/10/2018
DVD Review: Night of the Creeps
★★★★☆ Fred Dekker’s 1986 Night of the Creeps begins as it means to go on, opening with a frantic chaseContinue Reading
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14/10/2018
Film Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
★★★☆☆ Drew Goddard’s directorial debut The Cabin in the Woods was a playful deconstruction of the horror genre, housing aContinue Reading
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11/10/2018
Film Review: Mandy
★★★★★ Mandy is only the second feature film from director Panos Cosmatos, but every moment of it pulses with aContinue Reading
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10/10/2018
Film Review: First Man
★★★★☆ Hot from the success of 2016’s La La Land, Damien Chazelle returns with First Man, his personal take onContinue Reading
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09/10/2018
DVD Review (US): Eighth Grade
★★★★☆ Still scandalously unattached here in the UK and new to home ent in the US, Bo Burnham’s directorial debut EighthContinue Reading
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08/10/2018
Criterion Review: My Man Godfrey
★★★★☆ One may not consider the Great Depression as particularly fertile ground for comedy, but contemporary Hollywood would beg toContinue Reading
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08/10/2018
Criterion Review: Cold Water
★★★★☆ Olivier Assayas’ 1994 film Cold Water is just that – a sharp splash of punk cinema, adolescent romance and surrealist imagery,Continue Reading
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08/10/2018
Film Review: Female Human Animal
★★★☆☆ Shot on analogue video, Josh Appignanesi’s Female Human Animal is a visually arresting, surrealist piece whose reach occasionally exceeds itsContinue Reading
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05/10/2018
Film Review: Venom
★★☆☆☆ Intended as the first film in Sony Pictures’ wider Marvel Universe, the Tom Hardy-starring Venom is a desperately confusedContinue Reading
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27/09/2018
Film Review: The Wife
★★★★★ Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has intellect, charm, and elegant diplomacy. Her husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce), meanwhile, is the personificationContinue Reading
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26/09/2018
Film Review: Two for Joy
★★★☆☆ Samantha Morton stars as a mother sinking deeper into a harrowing depression and struggling to care for her twoContinue Reading
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24/09/2018
DVD Review: Eye of the Needle
★★★☆☆ A British war-time thriller with a difference, Eye of the Needle is played out as far removed from thoseContinue Reading
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19/09/2018
Film Review: Climax
★★★★★ Gaspar Noé’s Climax is arguably the French provocateur at his most subdued, but it still manages to be a rollickingContinue Reading
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19/09/2018
Film Review: Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
★★★★☆ Steve Loveridge’s documentary on Mathangi Arulpragasam (aka M.I.A.) is the story of a young girl’s creative coming-of-age as anContinue Reading