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Film Review: A Matter of Life and Death
★★★★★ Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s films defined British cinema in the 1940s and 1950s, which were both artistically and commercially successful. In 1946 and at the height of their powers, Powell and Pressburger wrote and directed A Matter of Life and Death, one of the finest British films ever made. For strong openings, A…
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Film Review: Human Flow
★★★★★ Ai Weiwei might be best known for his sculptures and installations, but with Human Flow he has created a masterpiece that truly captures the humanity at the heart of the global refugee crisis. Many films try to represent big ideas, but few do it successfully. Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow is a fortunate exception to…
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From screen to stage: the films we love to see live
From the big screen to an even bigger stage, films have been making their way into our theatres for decades. This said, not all films would be as entertaining when under artificial lighting. The stage adaptation of Blade Runner, for example, would probably be terrible as the action lends itself much more to the technical…
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Upcoming reboots we hope will be as good as the originals
Where would Hollywood be without the humble reboot? It seems that every month brings a blast from the past, repackaged for a new generation to sink its teeth into. The film industry loves to bet on a winning formula, and the critical and commercial successes of the Batman and Bond reboots a decade or so…
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Film Review: Suburbicon
★★★☆☆ A crime caper, set amongst the racial tensions of 1950s suburban America, this earnest satire is fun, but ultimately feels a bit thin and fails to give any weight to the politics it hints at. With a script originally written by the Coen brothers back in the 1980s, and adapted further by George Clooney…
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Film Review: Brakes
★★★★☆ Brakes is a bittersweet, raw comedy about love, sex, and relationships, with stellar performances from its large ensemble cast. Brakes starts off seemingly as an emotional drama, tying together nine dysfunctional couples in the process of splitting apart. Split into two distinct halves, the film opens with the brutal pain of multiple romances collapsing,…
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DVD Review: Tag
★★★☆☆ Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) is on a school bus with her friends when an invisible force rips off the top of the bus, severing all but Mitsuko in half. Running away in terror, she suddenly finds herself dressed in a different school uniform and with an unfamiliar group of friends. From there, things become increasingly…
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DVD Review: The Big Sick
★★★★☆ Starring Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick is that rarest of things: a funny and smart romantic comedy that is actually about something and is good enough to make you care for its characters. The move from television comedy to big screen exposure is fraught with danger. For every Will Ferrell –…
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Film Review: Justice League
★★☆☆☆ Superman (Henry Cavill) is dead. Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is stopping bank robberies and Batman (Ben Affleck) is chasing down weird bug-men from space. But with a new threat on the horizon, the Dark Knight and the Amazon princess must unite along with Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and The Flash (Ezra Miller)…
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Made in Prague: Our festival highlights
The Made in Prague Film Festival (10-19 November) is back in London over the next two weekends. Programmed by the Czech Cultural Centre, new films will be accompanied by the first ever UK retrospective of seminal Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Němec. Němec was an exciting name in an exciting scene in the 1960s, graduating…
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