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Edie Film Review
Drama, New British Cinema

“Edie”: Film Review

Edie is a surprising film. It sets out in an unassuming way and develops into something genuinely affecting. It tells the story of a widow in her early eighties, Edie.

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Baby Done Film Rose Matafeo and Matthew Lewis
Comedy

“Baby Done”: Film Review

An inventively disturbing life of the mind is camouflaged by cheerful wholesomeness in “Baby Done”, a low key comedy that flirts with big themes.

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Make Up Film 2019 review
London Film Festival 2019, New British Cinema

“Make Up”: Film Review

A young woman becomes her own Rebecca in “Make Up”, Claire Oakley’s directorial debut, with flashforwards that push her into adulthood. 

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Il Mio Corpo Film
Cannes 2020, Curzon Cinema

“Il Mio Corpo”: Film Review

The paradox of Stanley and Oscar’s home, their island, Sicily, is that while its horizons – the land, sea and skies – feel limitless, the possibilities it affords its young people are precarious and meagre.

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Bacurau Film Review
Cannes 2019

“Bacurau”: Film Review

Sassy, lethal, and disconcerting, “Bacurau” brings a powerfully surreal twist to the story of Brazil’s cinema of resistance. 

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Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
London Film Festival 2017

“The Shape of Water”: Film Review

Like all the most accomplished fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro’s world of wonders, “The Shape of Water”, opens with a sense of promise, of magical things to come, and inevitably, with an undertone of darkness.

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Russian Film Week
Russian Cinema, Russian film week

Russian Film Week 2020 – Part 1

Russian Film Week is back and in fine form. Opening with “The Whaler Boy”,  Philipp Yuryev’s Venice Days winner, the programme also features shorts, masterclasses and talks, including a conversation with Andrey Zviagintsev.

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Detroit Film
Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller

“Detroit”: A Collision of Genres

Nightmare on 12th Street.  July 1967, a sweltering summer in Detroit. The city erupts into rebellion.  Looting, arson, snipers.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Classics, Science Fiction

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”: Film Review

It’s over 40 years since film audiences were struck by the childlike wonder of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.

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Colour Out of Space Film Review
Horror, London Film Festival 2019, Science Fiction

“Colour Out of Space”: Film Review

This stellar adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” marks a brilliant return for cult director Richard Stanley.

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Jesse Buckley in Charlie Kaufman's I am Thinking of Ending Things
Dark Romance, Netflix

“I am Thinking of Ending Things”: Film Review

“I am Thinking of Ending Things” is a work steeped in the uncanny which while it hints at horror, borrowing some of the genre’s tropes and cues, delivers instead only horror of a purely existential kind.

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Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Dark Comedy, Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”: Film Review

The film provides a powerful emotional and sensory load – one can’t help but emerge from the cinema in an altered state.

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London Film Festival 2019

“Coup 53”: Film Review

A chirpy and entertaining film about a dark story with terrible consequences, Coup 53 is charmingly didactic

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Romantic Drama

“Disobedience”: Film Review

“Disobedience” reveals how one can long for what one also wishes to escape from.

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Paddington 2 Film
Comedy

“Paddington 2” Film Review

Kindness and cascades of fun prevail in this second cinematic outing for young Paddington.

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