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Resident Evil review – an absolute blast
As a considerable fan of the Resident Evil series of survival horror video games, I had the constant image of the famous…
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Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – first-look review
All lieutenants are bad, to paraphrase a famous axiom, and that includes officers on every police force, everywhere – at least,…
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review…
Fans of the 2005 feature length Wallace and Gromit outing, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, may experience pangs of déjà vu…
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The Debut – first-look review
In the opening chapter of ‘Revolutionary Road’, Richard Yates’ classic 1962 novel of postwar suburban discontent, the young parents of a Connecticut…
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The Last Photograph – first-look review
The titular last photograph in Zack Snyder’s morally vile, intellectually void, badly made and interminably dull The Last Photograph is a nude. Ethan…
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Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV…
Variations of the phrase “10-hour movie” are synonymous with creators and actors seeking to prove that their project has more…
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Barrio Triste review – a haunting requiem for the…
The sensation of the fabric of the everyday world being ripped apart to afford a glimpse of something shocking lying beneath…
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Oasis – first-look review | Little White Lies
Mentored by Jessica Hausner and a former assistant to Michael Haneke, German filmmaker Jannis Lenz certainly has the pedigree to announce…
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Everybody Wants to F*ck Me – first-look review
You can tell a lot about a rom-com from the posters the characters have on their wall. The morning after Adam (Taron…
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Bad Apples review – twisted black comedy
There’s a scene early on in Bad Apples where Saoirse Ronan’s overworked and frustrated primary school teacher Maria becomes distracted from…
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