Breaking Down The 1917 Debate
The film industry loves a good argument. Recent release 1917, Sam Mendes’s (potential Oscar-winning) movie has ignited discourse...
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Review: Little Women – “A stunning portrayal of how women live and love”
“I’ve been angry every day of my life” states Laura Dern’s Marmee, in a brief moment of candidness, midway through...
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LFF 2019 Review: Une Fille Facile (An Easy Girl) – “You won’t find a better coming-of-age tale this year”
Since making the brilliant but under-seen Planetarium in 2016, Rebecca Zlotowski seemed to be lying low. Instead, it’s now apparent...
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LFF 2019 Review: The Report – “A spectacular and necessary piece of cinema”
It’s what many of us hope for, the knowledge that based-on-a-true-story cinema can do more than entertain, it can actually redress...
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LFF 2019 Review: Bad Education – “Dripping with righteous anger”
The sound of Greta Thunberg’s name is enough to make most cheer and some fume. As the poster child for the climate change movement,...
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LFF 2019 Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon – “A wonder to behold”
It’s not often that a film conveys the feeling of being really dirty. Not the gritty city realism of a kitchen-sink drama, nor...
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Review: Downton Abbey – “Fun, silly, moving, and at times, downright pacy”
It’s a very particular kind of drug, with a diminishing supply – can you get high on aristocracy? The snobbery, manners,...
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Review: It Chapter Two at the BFI IMAX
Sequels used to be a harder sell-in, because recreating that first-time cinematic magic is a dark art. However, in recent years, the...
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Why I Signed the Game of Thrones Petition
“I am not going to stop the wheel, I’m going to break the wheel.” I am going to break the wheel of established journalism, by starting...
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Review – Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald – “Far too convoluted”
Ten films into a franchise that Warner Bros. now calls the ‘Wizarding World’, arrives Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of...
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