Movies
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The 2025 Venice line-up is insanely stacked
The FOMO is going to be very real and very hard for anyone who doesn’t happen to be headed to…
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Harvest + Harry Melling | Friendship | I Love You, Man (2009)
On Truth & Movies this week, the traditions of a village are forever changed in Harvest and its star Harry…
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Marcello Mastroianni: A Life Lived Beautifully
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “la dolce vita”? If, like us, you’re a fan of Italian…
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The queer optimism of My Beautiful Laundrette
My partner and I headed from the suburbs into the city to attend a 40th anniversary screening of My Beautiful Laundrette, a film neither…
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I Know What You Did Last Summer review – cramped…
After 30 years, fans can breathe a sigh of relief – Julie James and Ray Bronson are back! Now, “Who are Julie…
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Smurfs review – a drab exercise in IP filler…
We started, in 2011, with the pop singer-songwriter Katy Perry stepping into the pearly-white high-heels of that most coveted role…
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Friendship review – The Wario to I Love You Man’s…
Making friends is hard. It’s even harder as an adult – while the media laments the ongoing “male loneliness epidemic”,…
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A report from the bleeding edge of non-fiction…
Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz has a diary entry that I think about frequently – one of my favorites in literature. On a Wednesday…
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Athina Rachel Tsangari: ‘It’s about how easily…
The playful surrealism of Greek writer/director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s 2012 second feature, Attenberg, landed her on the map of filmmakers to…
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Harvest review – remarkably compelling work
As much as British cinema loves a period drama, for whatever reason the trials and tribulations of peasants get a lot less…
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