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I, Tonya
There’s something about the dramatic tension and psychological depth you can wring from a movie about an individual sport. Team sports...
The Shape Of Water
The Shape Of Water leading the Oscar nominations was most likely a surprise to some on announcement. An old fashioned, romantic love...
Coco
Pixar’s releases can often feel like they crest a cultural wave; Toy Story set the benchmark for animation in the nineties and...
The Post
We’ve got to the stage where any historical event can be canonised in celluloid. Some strike as barrel scraping but with certain films...
Darkest Hour
There are certain stories, legends, morality tales etc. destined to be retold, reinterpreted and reimagined ad infinitum. Some have...
Downsizing
Every so often an idea comes along that’s so forehead-slappingly brilliant it’s difficult to fathom how it hasn’t been done for....
Hostiles
As with every genre, the Western is having a bit of a mini-revival at the moment with filmmakers using its desolate locales and wanton...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
January is THE month for the UK film connoisseur. Dark mornings and cold, rainy days be damned as we’re treated to an influx of films...
Pitch Perfect 3
The first two Pitch Perfect films are exceedingly good, all-round entertainment which latched on to a growing trend and a gap in the...
The 2017 Albums Of The Year
2017 has been a particularly fine vintage for music. The less said about other things the better but there's nothing like political...
The 2017 Films Of The Year
After squabbles, in-fighting and more shuffling than a Vegas casino I present the best films of 2017: 20. Okja 19. Free Fire 18. The Lego...
The 2017 TV Of The Year
The small screen has been squabbling with the big in recent times and can certainly boast its own inimitable run of 'event' watching. For...
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