Films
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Pet Sematary
There are two ways a film with such an outrageous plot as Pet Sematary could have been made. The first is as a campy ‘B movie’ fully aware of how ridiculous the idea of family pets rising from the dead is. The secon...
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Doin’ My Drugs
Director/writer Tyler Q Rosen’s revealing and inspiring documentary Doin’ My Drugs has its world premiere at the prestigious CPH:DOX* Festival in Copenhagen this weekend. The film will screen as part of the Sound and Vision 201...
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Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows is your average ‘missing child’ thriller film that heavily relies on one thing: the chemistry between real life married couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. To the film’s credit this is quite easily the most ...
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Cold Pursuit
In light of Liam Neeson’s well documented remarks about wanting to exact revenge on any black man he could find after hearing his friend had been attacked by a man of the same skin colour, there’s a certain uncomfortable irony ...
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Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel tells the story of the titular cyborg who is rescued from the wreckage of a junkyard by Christoph Waltz’s Dr Dyson. This is where the story attempts, to some success, to tell a father/daughter story as Dyson...
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A Private War
On the surface A Private War ticks all the boxes for the kind of film the Academy Awards adores. A culturally relevant yet moving real life story? Tick. A lead actor transforming themselves beyond recognition? Tick. A haunting ...
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The LEGO Movie 2
It’s been five years since The LEGO Movie graced our screens. And five years have passed in that world too. Picking up in the moments immediately following the curtain call on the first instalment, via a combination of fl...
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One Cut of the Dead
A zombie invasion isn’t quite what it seems in Shin’ichirô Ueda’s refreshing, funny, and clever take on a much-abused horror genre. The plot revolves around what appears to be the making of a low-budget zombie horror film that...
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Mortal Engines
A thousand years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, a mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar), sets out to stop London — now a giant, predator city on wheels — from devouring everything in its pa...
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Given the sheer volume of superhero movies sloshing around at the moment you may be tempted to give Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse a miss. What’s one more film, about one more guy in tights, after all? Don’t! Into the Spider...
