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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...
A Real Pain
A Real Pain is such a perfect, double meaning title for Jesse Eisenberg’s thought-provoking, charming, funny and brilliant new film. A...
Better Man
Much like we learn about his career itself, against all the odds Robbie Williams’ story Better Man joins the top table of music biopics....
Babygirl
Arguably without clear frontrunners, 2025’s Oscars race in all the major categories appears to be wide open. Nicole Kidman will certainly...
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