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Sisu: Road To Revenge review – a Suomi western
It is that Finnish word “that cannot be translated” again, and yet which is translated, also again, in opening text, as “a…
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Wicked: For Good review – Chu is as much a fraud…
The accusation of “all style, no substance” gets thrown around often, sometimes appropriately, but what about a film that has neither style…
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Game review – a taut, lean and claustrophobic…
When we meet petty thief David (Marc Bessant), his decision to rob a catatonic drug dealer at a rave has landed him…
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Predators review – one of the most valuable…
Despite only running between 2004 and 2007, To Catch a Predator had an indelible impact on popular culture. Fronted by the…
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Jay Kelly review – the Clooney of it all…
While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom –…
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Predator: Badlands review – a strangely wholesome…
Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles,…
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Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I…
Throughout her career, Lynne Ramsay has created some of the most searing character studies in modern cinema. From Ratcatcher to…
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Yemi Bamiro on the making of Black Is Beautiful:…
It was the Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised, and Harlem-championing photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite who came to popularise the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” which…
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The wild, wacky tale of Wallace and Gromit: Curse…
Change was in the air at Aardman Animation in the early 2000s. After decades of making a name for themselves through…
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The Mastermind | Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere | Two Lane Blacktop (1971)
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and finally, for…
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