MOVIE
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Return To Silent Hill review – if not entirely…
If anyone was going to try to adapt Silent Hill 2, one of video gaming’s most spectacular artistic achievements, you could…
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H is for Hawk review – occasionally falters, but…
Grief never really goes away, but its initial impact takes many forms. Some people are paralysed for months on end.…
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Inside the North West Film Clubs building a…
Without the glossy production values that come with screening in a multiplex, film clubs like Speed and Strike sell themselves on…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review –…
Poor Spike (Alfie Williams) hasn’t been having the best time during the zombie apocalypse. After the events of 28 Years…
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State of Statelessness review – an intimate…
This is a film about the constant sense of being slightly out of step with where you are standing, rendered with…
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Giant review – another tired boxing biopic for…
It’s nearing a quarter-century since the retirement of “Prince” Naseem Hamed, Sheffield’s world champion boxer of Yemeni heritage. For a while, in…
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Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ira Sachs’ best film…
It’s only a matter of time before kids are doing the Peter (Hujar) Pilgrimage: a leisurely photographer’s stroll down New York’s 2nd…
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Bowie: The Final Act review – revisiting the…
In 2016, David Bowie’s death shook the world like a supernova – a deliberately-staged explosion that collapsed a lifetime of personas into a single, blinding…
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The Housemaid review – what a mess
I first became acquainted with Freida McFadden’s New York Times bestselling thriller ‘The Housemaid’ earlier in 2025, when I stumbled across…
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It’s a Wrap: 2025 in Film
Emily Maskell Five personal favourite films of 2025 Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor) April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) Flow (Gints…
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