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LFF 2019: Lucky Grandma -“A very assured first feature”

Posted by on Oct 4, 2019 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Lady luck takes a glance in the wrong direction for a gambling Grandma in writer-director Sasie Siely’s debut feature. Grandma Wong (Tsai...

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Review: Varda by Agnès – “As much about sharing ideas and experiences as it is about artistic reflection”

Posted by on Jul 17, 2019 in All, documentary, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

The late, great Belgian-born, French filmmaker Agnès Varda presents one last window into her life and work. Varda by Agnès is a...

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Review: Booksmart – “Laughs and life lessons”

Posted by on May 27, 2019 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

For those of us who left high school during the gross-out, testosterone fest of American Pie it would have been fantastic to have seen...

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Review: On The Basis Of Sex

Posted by on Feb 21, 2019 in All, biopic, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Mimi Leder’s On The Basis of Sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the second film about Ruth Bader-Ginsburg this year, following the recent doc RBG....

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Review: Green Book – “A well-intentioned crowd-pleaser”

Posted by on Jan 30, 2019 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Odd couple buddy movies don’t usually attract the kind of heat Green Book has. Inspired by a real 1962 road trip where a black virtuoso...

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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: The Fight – “A debut film that more than punches its weight”

Posted by on Oct 19, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, sport | 0 comments

Jessica Hynes might best known as a comedy actress, but it’s the drama of the everyday she ’s exploring in her first feature as a...

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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Out Of Blue – “Flashes of brilliance”

Posted by on Oct 16, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Carol Morley is an investigator behind the camera; it’s the common thread that runs through her films. From the fragments of memories from...

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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Widows – “The script is sharp as a knife”

Posted by on Oct 11, 2018 in action, All, Books, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Steve McQueen got the 62nd BFI London Film Festival off to an explosive start with his female fronted heist. Adapted from Lynda La...

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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Bad Reputation – The new Joan Jett documentary

Posted by on Oct 8, 2018 in All, documentary, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Rock docs can often be a pretty standard cut-up of the archive and talking heads. Director Kevin Kerslake’s Joan Jett film Bad Reputation...

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Review: A Simple Favour – “Wickedly silly”

Posted by on Sep 18, 2018 in All, Books, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

The trailer for A Simple Favour makes Paul Feig’s latest film look like a modern thriller in the Gone Girl vein. But it isn’t that. It’s a...

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