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James Hay - Cinema Editor

A Monster Calls

Director J.A. Bayona (best known for 2007’s The Orphanage) teams up with his long-time cinematographer and collaborator, Oscar Faura, to conjure a stunning and, if somewhat sentimental, moving Gothic fairy-tale in his
January 16, 2017

La La Land

A Technicolour melange of fantastical dreamlike musicality, Damien Chazelle‘s La La Land is a gorgeous, potent and moving love song to a bygone age of golden Hollywood movie-making magic and to the potential and power
January 12, 2017

Passengers

A beguilingly misleading trailer and marketing campaign do nothing to lift the ever-so-slightly uncomfortable feeling resulting from the plot in Passengers. By turns a slick and sweeping adventure thriller, then glitzy star-vehicle-blockbuster-fodder,
January 9, 2017

Paterson

Jim Jarmusch sets his directorial brush on fire to paint a wonderfully slow burning portrait of intimate love between two distinctly different but impossibly intertwined human beings in his latest, Paterson. Thematically
November 23, 2016

Arrival

Arrival starts as it means to go on, with a hyper-stylish and realistic approach to the Sci-Fi genre. No wonder on the style front, as at the helm is Denis Villeneuve, the
November 11, 2016

In Pursuit of Silence

It’s the impeccably crystalline sound design of In Pursuit of Silence, above all else, that leaves you so very acutely aware, upon leaving the cinema, if only for some residual minutes rather than resounding
October 21, 2016

When Two Worlds Collide

When Two Worlds Collide is a film that shines a shockingly bright light into the murky shadows cast by the institutional forces that govern this world. If you thought you knew how things were run
September 13, 2016

Black

A modern day Romeo and Juliet with a dark twist, Black is as hard as it is stylish. Mavela (Martha Canga Antonio) and Marwan (Aboubakr Bensaihi) are from the wrong sides of
August 19, 2016

David Brent: Life on the Road

David Brent: Life on the Road should be titled, David Brent: Doesn’t Stretch to the Big Screen. Not quite as flabby as Ricky Gervais with his top off but a bit like
August 18, 2016

Dheepan

Three strangers are forced together out of desperation in a bid to escape war-torn Sri Lanka. Dheepan takes on this new family as a means to an end but the end soon
August 9, 2016
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