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Marching Powder
Having Danny Dyer team back up with The Football Factory Director Nick Love for another film largely focused on football hooliganism...
The Last Showgirl
Las Vegas is usually depicted on screen as the bastion of glamour and fun. A setting for movies about gangsters, stag parties, holidays...
Captain America: Brave New World
All good teams lose sometimes and so it is that Captain America: Brave New World doesn’t usher in the brave and new world of its title so...
Companion
The ‘Black Mirror-inspired’ sci-fi/dark comedy/horror is a rich genre starting to get full with modern greats and prescient stories sure...
Hard Truths
Hard Truths is a hard watch. Nonetheless, Mike Leigh’s latest is simultaneously heart-warming, funny, truthful and truly sad. Leigh...
September 5
September 5 is another great addition to the always brilliant but generally underrated genre: the ‘journalism thriller.’ Telling the...
Flight Risk
If Flight Risk had come out in its spiritual home of the 1990’s there’s a chance it could now be regarded as a cult classic. A typically...
The Brutalist
It’s hard sometimes to judge or appraise something by virtue of it being ‘high art’ or ‘low art’ and there is value in every type of...
A Complete Unknown
I’ve written a lot recently about biopics and also, when discussing Nosferatu, posited the difficulty of defining something iconic....
Nosferatu
It must be daunting trying to create the definitive version of something so well known. Make that doubly difficult when there have been...
Maria
Pablo Larraín releases his third stately and eloquent biopic and may have topped his previous two efforts with Maria. This, the story of...
Saturday Night
Saturday Night is a different kind of biopic, telling the story of the moments before the very first broadcast of SNL. It’s an absolutely...
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