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The Middle Man
Rating: 5/5. Bottom line: A Carrollian wonderland of a film. Release date: Out now. Run time: 1 hour 35 minutes. Director: Bent Hamer. Cast: Pål Sverre Hagen, Aksel Hennie, Nicolas Bro, Rossif Sutherland, Don McKellar, Paul Gro...
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Scream VI
After a wait of 11 years between Scream 3 and 4 and then another whopping 11 between 4 and last year’s self-proclaimed ‘requel’, the bloody franchise bursts back onto the big screen while the latest is still f...
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Electric Malady
Rated: 5/5. Genre: Documentary. Director: Marie Lidén. Language: Swedish with English subtitles. Run time: 84 minutes. Certificate: 12A. Trigger warning: Mentions of suicide and depression. BAFTA-nominated documentary, Electric...
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The Driver – 4K Restoration
Writer-director Walter Hill is a Mustang of a filmmaker. An American muscle car whose engine is finely attuned to accelerate fast and brake harder. His films are so macho they give you whiplash. So it is with great delight to s...
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Poltergeist (1982)
Rereleasing in cinemas this Halloween from Park Circus Films and available for the first time on 4K UHD from Warner Bros, Tobe Hooper’s iconic supernatural shocker remains one of the most enjoyable horror flicks of its era. Fro...
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Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends is destined to divide people. While expectations were certainly all over the place after the farcical Halloween Kills of last year, Ends has that unlucky job of not just successfully rounding off the new Hallowee...
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Pennywise: The Story of IT
Pennywise, the titular monstrous being of Stephen King’s IT, remains one of the most iconic and feared villains in horror. Whether on the pages of the original novel or most recently performed on-screen by Bill Skarsgård, the c...
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Inu-oh
Masaaki Yuasa’s historical, rock musical, buddy-comedy, anime, Inu-oh comes to cinemas this September. Yes, you read that right. Inu-oh is a film that defies both genre labels and stereotypes– and the result is glorious. ...
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The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour
In 1973, multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield released his debut album Tubular Bells on Virgin Records. The mostly instrumental album, recorded by a then-19 year old Oldfield, had a quiet release and, initially, low sales. When ...
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Strawberry Mansion
The very best genre films are those that engage us, entertain us, and enlighten us—and Strawberry Mansion ticks all those boxes with aplomb. In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts dream audits...
