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Mickey 17
Following up a generational, awards-laden masterpiece cannot be an easy task. Bong Joon Ho has dipped into many genres but takes a route...
Opus
The cult of celebrity is a rich topic to dissect, explore and satirise and Opus, directed by former magazine editor Mark Anthony Green,...
Black Bag
There are two types of spy films. Bracket them into ‘Ian Fleming vs. John Le Carre’ if you will; the all-action, in the field, slightly...
One of Them Days
It does rather feel like nostalgia for the nineties and noughties is a current ruling trend in the media and cinema is no exception....
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...
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