MOVIE
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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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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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