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Film Review: Captain Marvel
★★★☆☆ It’s 1995, and the Kree warrior Vers (Brie Larson) has just crash landed on the planet Earth after escaping capture by the evil Skrulls, shapeshifters engaged in a galactic war with the Kree. While Vers’ mentor, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law), provides support from orbit, Vers must team up with young S.H.I.E.L.D agent Nick Fury (Samuel…
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DVD Round-up: Feb 2019 edition
While the debate over streaming versus cinema rages among the Hollywood elite, many are raising their concerns that physical home media is in decline, meaning that many older films will become increasingly hard to access. From this February on, we’ll be championing DVDs and Blu-rays with a monthly round-up of some of the best releases.…
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How late is too late for Indy 5?
Indiana Jones was, is and forever shall be the most famous archaeologist in the world. He may not be a superhero, but much like Bruce Wayne masquerades as Batman, mild-mannered lecturer and professor Indiana Jones has a secret second life, where he swings across ravines with a whip, and fights supernatural creatures and the Nazis…
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Film Review: The Kindergarten Teacher
★★★☆☆ As Lisa Spinelli, Maggie Gyllenhaal is the eponymous educator bored with regurgitating the restrictive school curriculum. Lisa’s creative inclinations are sparked, however, when she notices that one of her pupils, the quiet Jimmy (Parker Sevak), has a preternatural gift for spontaneous poetry. Sara Colangelo’s second feature is a compelling drama-thriller, bolstered by a quietly…
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Film Review: Ray & Liz
★★★★★ Depicting British working class on film typically endures a mixed cinematic representation. Amongst illustrating life north of Watford as a poverty-ridden fuelled existence of nothingness, these inaccurate portrayals only serve to create a London centric approach to not only just cinema but culture itself in the UK. However, every now and again an artist…
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Film Review: The Hole in the Ground
★★★☆☆ A young woman retreats to the Irish countryside with her son in Lee Cronin’s debut feature The Hole in the Ground. Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake) is the literally bruised young woman fleeing an abusive relationship into the depths of the Irish woods. In a large farmhouse full of creaking cellar doors and groaning walls,…
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Film Review: Foxtrot
★★★★☆ Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz’s heart-rending family drama Foxtrot, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler and Yontan Shiray, explores the futility of war, love and loss. An ambitious melding of three distinctive parts, it opens with a middle-aged couple receiving devastating news. Two army officers turn up on their doorstep to inform Daphna (Sarah Adler) and Michael…
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Oscars 2019: Green Book wins Best Picture, Colman is Best Actress
Several surprise wins livened up an otherwise low-key 91st Academy Awards, with Green Book trumping Roma to Best Picture and Olivia Colman besting Glenn Close for her role as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite. Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards on the night with four, including Best Actor for Rami Malek, while Roma and Black Panther both took home three Oscars apiece. BEST…
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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-American college basketball star, Keifer Sykes, over the course of several years, as he pursues his big dream of playing in the NBA. At a swift and precise 79 minutes, Chi-Town packs a lot in. There’s…
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Oscars 2019: Our predictions
The 91st Academy Awards are just hours away and yet, with the announcement that the Oscars for Cinematography, Editing, Live Action Short and Make-Up will no longer be banished to commercial breaks, the final ceremony itself still feels very much a work in progress. This is not the first controversy to hit this year’s awards…
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