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23/11/2018
Film Review: Shoplifters
★★★★☆ Often compared in his distinctly Japanese minimalism to legendary compatriot Ozu, Hirokazu Kore-eda is a filmmaker whose graceful yetContinue Reading
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23/11/2018
Film Review: Assassination Nation
★★★★★ Set in modern-day Salem, the events of Assassination Nation bear more than a passing resemblance to the town’s infamous hystericalContinue Reading
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23/11/2018
Radioactive superheros: superpowers or death?
Comic book fans around the world have been truly spoilt in the last few years, with so many Marvel andContinue Reading
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23/11/2018
Ranking the fashion sense of James Bond supervillains
When you hear a story about the most fashionable front men in films, everyone’s favourite Double-Oh agent might spring toContinue Reading
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19/11/2018
Film Review: The Workshop
★★★☆☆ Alexei Sayle once cautioned that you should never enter a workshop that doesn’t have a vice in it. FrenchContinue Reading
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17/11/2018
Film Review: The Price of Everything
★★★★★ Primarily centred around New York auction houses, art fairs and the colourful characters that frequent them, Nathaniel Kahn’s TheContinue Reading
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17/11/2018
Film Review: Becoming Animal
★★★★☆ Becoming Animal is an unusual, thought-provoking film essay which upends many tropes of wildlife photography to create a richContinue Reading
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16/11/2018
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
★★★☆☆ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the latest instalment in a projected pentalogy from J.K. Rowling, which findsContinue Reading
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15/11/2018
Film Review: The Girl in the Spider’s Web
★★☆☆☆ The saga of Lisbeth Salander has spanned a collective eight films and novels, meaning any new entry has theContinue Reading
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15/11/2018
Film Review: Suspiria (2018)
★★★★☆ Luca Guadagnino returns to screens this week with his long-awaited take on giallo classic Suspiria – minus much ofContinue Reading
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12/11/2018
DVD Review: Hitler’s Hollywood
★★★★☆ Hitler’s Hollywood begins not with the goose stepping and sieg heiling of Triumph of the Will, but instead with some jaunty whistlingContinue Reading
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09/11/2018
Film Review: Wildlife
★★★★☆ Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife lands not with a thud but a slow caress, to be inhaled and ruminatedContinue Reading
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09/11/2018
Busan 2018: Festival round-up
Slowly emerging from the political turmoil and boycotts it had faced the past few years, the Busan International Film FestivalContinue Reading
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08/11/2018
Film Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
★★★☆☆ As cultural curiosities go, they don’t get much more curious than Fred Rogers. A Pennsylvania pastor with a penchantContinue Reading
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07/11/2018
Ocean’s 8 and female empowerment
Featuring a star-studded cast of Hollywood’s top actresses, Ocean’s 8 is the all-female take on the Ocean’s series inspired byContinue Reading