Movies
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Splitsville review – lacking on romance and comedy
The course of true love never did run smooth, and for the kind but clueless Carey (Kyle Marvin) he’s in…
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What Wasteman shows us about the reality of…
Director Cal McMau spent 10 years doing research, mainly via watching phone-captured footage smuggled out of prison and uploaded to YouTube,…
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RIP Frederick Wiseman – In remembrance of the…
I discovered the work of the American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman through sheer pot lock. I used to work for the…
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – the King…
Baz Luhrmann loves Elvis Presley so much, and he’s not ready to let go. After discovering never-before-seen footage of Presley’s…
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Wasteman review – an exceptionally gritty,…
Recent years have given us so much copaganda – the positive portrayal of policing and prison in popular culture –…
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The Secret Agent review – Mendonça Filho’s most…
When Marcelo (Wagner Moura) first arrives in Dona Sebastiana’s building, he is greeted by a curious cat whose head is split…
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Mary Sweeney: ‘David considered The Straight…
Released in 1999, The Straight Story is often overlooked among David Lynch’s filmography for being the most ‘conventional’ or the…
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Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up review –…
The Looney Tunes have admittedly fallen on hard times in recent years. As far as animation was concerned, David Zaslav’s…
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Little Amélie review – a dazzling little film
A spirited Belgian moppet, indomitable in her curiosity and boasting eyes as green as a rolling summer meadow, learns about life,…
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Joachim Trier and the science of self-doubt
Walt Whitman famously professed in his poem ‘Song to Myself’ to “contain multitudes”, and in doing so encapsulated the mysteries…
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