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The Persian Version
Despite it’s being advertised as a culture-clash comedy, The Persian Version is, first and foremost, a truly moving and nuanced...
Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two is sci-fi/fantasy filmmaking on such a ridiculously epic scale, it might be better to make a comparison with some kind of...
Bob Marley: One Love
You can tell just by the title of new biopic Bob Marley: One Love what kind of film you’re going to get. By and large, the music biopic...
The Zone of Interest
How do you go about making a film, ostensibly a leisure activity and source of entertainment, with nigh-on zero redeemable characters? In...
Argylle
Matthew Vaughn dives back into the espionage field but, somewhat surprisingly, comes off of the Kingsman franchise in favour of Argylle....
All of Us Strangers
It’s not often you can describe something as achingly romantic but simultaneous nightmarish. Same goes for incredibly grounded but also...
The Taste of Things
Quite obviously, film is an awesome workout for our sight and sound. What we don’t often see is the cinema give us a test of our...
The Iron Claw
Whilst the ‘sports film’ genre as a whole is rather scattershot in terms of hits and misses, the world of combat sports is usually very...
The Holdovers
Of all of the delayed UK releases, The Holdovers may be the most affected in terms of box office take, down to the fact that it is...
The Color Purple (2024)
The new musical moment continues with another 'theatrical version of the stage show musical version of the original non-musical...
Mean Girls (2024)
I think it was when espousing the values of In The Heights a few years back that I commented on the relative lack of theatrically...
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
How much you enjoy Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom might come down to how appealing you find the idea of Jason Momoa punching an oversized...
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