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Coming of age with Rob Reiner
“It was the summer of 1959, a long time ago. But only if you measure it in terms of years.” Richard…
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Lurker review – an excellent showcase for…
In his controversial but undeniably significant smash hit ‘Stan’, Eminem relayed the story of an obsessive fan who would do…
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Ella McCay review – comfort food reheated, with a…
It’s been 15 years since filmmaker and TV legend James L Brooks last attempted to make a romantic comedy. The memory of 2010’s How…
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Dreamers review – presents the hell of seeking…
If there’s one thing that 2025 has done really well it’s to place out in the open the fact that…
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Cover-Up review – a film worthy of Seymour Hersh
When investigative journalist Seymour “Sy” Hersh is asked what made him a suitable candidate to run his father’s store in Chicago,…
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review –…
It’s never easy to deliver a sequel to a successful whodunnit, much less a threequel. At this point, the amateur sleuths have begun…
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Christy review – this ain’t ringing no box office…
When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was…
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Pillion review – a refreshingly sexy and touching…
Although based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source…
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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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