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Michael Shannon’s Big Year | Little White Lies
This Jeff Nichol’s film – the first of two 2016 movies directed by his long-time collaborator in which Shannon appeared –…
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Greetings Earthlings: The tactile joy of puppets…
Rocky’s design by Scanlan was built from the literary groundwork laid out by Weir and his evocative description of the…
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Forbidden Fruits – first-look review
Channeling the spirits of movies like Mean Girls and The Craft, Forbidden Fruits follows a group of young women working at a mall as they fight over…
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Dead Man’s Wire review – watchable, but struggles…
Anti-heroes make for compelling subjects, particularly in a world as unjust as the one we live in, and 1970s American cinema…
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Abode review – ultimately forgettable
From the sexual proclivities of middle-aged women to odd encounters with smart appliances and clandestine Christmas dinners, Liam O Mochain’s anthology…
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The Good Boy review – needs a tighter leash
Tommy (Anson Boon), who spends his nights fighting bouncers and consuming everything under the sun and his days terrorising the…
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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice – first-look review
Aside from the latest version of The Naked Gun, action comedies have suffered a recent dry spell. Many of the latest movies…
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Over Your Dead Body – first-look review
For decades, many movies have warned that marriage isn’t easy. It requires work, communication, and commitment from both parties –…
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Arco review – primary-colour, major-key…
“What if rainbows were people from the future travelling in time?” is the sort of tagline that will make many…
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La Grazia review – trite banalities across the…
There was a time in the mid-00s when the prospect of a new film by Italy’s newest favourite son, Paolo Sorrentino, was…
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