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08/06/2019
Film Review: Diego Maradona
★★★★☆ Sound design is crucial to the success of Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona. Every thunk, thud and crunch on the pitchContinue Reading
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08/06/2019
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019: Honeyland review
★★★★☆ Hatidze’s skinny middle-aged frame is almost swallowed up by the jagged expanse of rural Macedonia as she scrapes herContinue Reading
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07/06/2019
Film Review: X-Men: Dark Phoenix
★★★☆☆ On a mission to save a squad of stranded astronauts, mutant Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) is hit with aContinue Reading
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05/06/2019
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019: Our programme highlights
This Thursday (6 June) the seven hills of Sheffield will once again open up to the innovators and icons ofContinue Reading
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04/06/2019
Film Review: Freedom Fields
★★★★☆ Freedom Fields is both a love letter to the sport and a sharp critique of post-revolution Libya – pennedContinue Reading
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03/06/2019
DVD Round-up: May 2019 edition
Another monster month for May, with Criterion and Eureka dominating again with a surfeit of releases. Nevertheless, cult label ArrowContinue Reading
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31/05/2019
Film Review: The Blue Angel
★★★★★ The films produced in the inter-war period in Germany were among the most vibrant, innovative and politically charged inContinue Reading
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31/05/2019
Edinburgh 2019: Programme highlights
The full programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival has been revealed, bolstering 18 world premieres and 72 UKContinue Reading
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30/05/2019
Film Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters
★★★☆☆ “Let them fight” was the raison d’etre of Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, the kaiju-centric creature feature that kickstarted Legendary Studio’s monster-verse back in 2014.Continue Reading
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30/05/2019
Film Review: Thunder Road
★★★★☆ Opening with an excruciating but perversely funny funeral scene, Thunder Road is unapologetic in showing the rawness and devastationContinue Reading
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30/05/2019
Film Review: Support the Girls
★★★☆☆ The uniquely American phenomenon of Hooters-style sports bars provides the subject matter for Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls. MoreContinue Reading
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30/05/2019
Hollywood’s most famous casino players
For decades, Hollywood has enjoyed an incredibly close relationship with casinos; whether it’s the countless major movies that have beenContinue Reading
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28/05/2019
Film Review: Booksmart
★★★☆☆ It seems there has long been a need for graciously uncool female protagonists in the teen coming-of-age canon, thoseContinue Reading
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26/05/2019
Film Review: XY Chelsea
★★★★☆ In 2010, US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison after she leaked classifiedContinue Reading
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26/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Sibyl review
★★★☆☆ Movies love certain professions and psychotherapy is certainly one. They have to listen to people’s problems while (usually) maskingContinue Reading