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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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16/02/2019
Film Review: The Lady Eve
★★★★★ To modern audiences, screwball comedies serve as slapstick forms of the moving image. Yet, behind this, they unbalance genderContinue Reading
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15/02/2019
Film Review: Happy Death Day 2U
★★★☆☆ The day after the events of Happy Death Day – in which Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) must relive her murderContinue Reading
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14/02/2019
Film Review: Jellyfish
★★★☆☆ Jellyfish delivers a thoughtful commentary on theatre and art through a bleak narrative of broken family life. It’s anchoredContinue Reading
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13/02/2019
Film Review: A Private War
★★★★★ Matthew Heineman, best-known for his acclaimed documentaries Cartel Land and City of Ghosts, seamlessly makes the transition to fictionContinue Reading
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11/02/2019
DVD Review: Blindspotting
★★★★☆ Alongside Get Out, Boots Riley’s astonishing Sorry to Bother You and the blistering TV comedy-drama Atlanta, Carlos López Estrada’s featureContinue Reading
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07/02/2019
Film Review: The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
★★★★☆ Against all odds, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The Lego Movie reaped massive successes when it was released five yearsContinue 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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01/02/2019
Film Review: Green Book
★★★☆☆ Exploring the politics of race and class in 1960s America, Green Book attempts to shine a light on theContinue Reading
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29/01/2019
Film Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
★★★★★ In her excellent adaptation of Lee Israel’s literary fraudster memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, director Marielle Heller takesContinue Reading
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25/01/2019
Film Review: Bergman: A Year in a Life
★★★★☆ After the recent centenary of Ingmar Bergman and Criterion Collection’s release of a mammoth thirty-nine film Blu-ray box set,Continue Reading
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25/01/2019
Film Review: Vice
★★★★☆ When historians look back at the rise of populism and anti-establishment feeling in the early years of the 21stContinue Reading
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25/01/2019
Film Review: On Her Shoulders
★★★★★ The subject of Alexandria Bombach’s On Her Shoulders is an extraordinary woman, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, andContinue Reading
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25/01/2019
Film Review: Destroyer
★★★☆☆ In Karyn Kusama’s LA-based noir Destroyer, Nicole Kidman stars – and startles – as desiccated detective Erin Bell, revivedContinue Reading
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22/01/2019
DVD Review: Orphée
★★★★★ The second film in Jean Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, Orphée’s textural and thematic richness is matched only by its enduring technicalContinue Reading