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Review: Cyrano
2 Mar 2022Cyrano sees Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) take the role of the poet and soldier who helps his rival woo the woman he loves. Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice).
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Review: Flee
2 Mar 2022Flee is an innovative Danish film about escaping Afghanistan 25 years ago. It's up for three Academy Awards this year - Best International Film, Best Documentary and Best Animated Feature
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C'mon C'mon
23 Feb 2022C'mon C'mon stars Oscar-winning Joaquin Phoenix and Bafta nominee, 11-year-old Woody Norman. Directed by Mike Mills (Beginners)
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The Worst Person in the World
23 Feb 2022The Worst Person in the World is definitely "cinema". It's Norwegian, it picked up Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival and it's up for two Oscars this year.
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Death on the Nile
16 Feb 2022Death on the Nile is Sir Kenneth Branagh's followup to his successful Murder on the Orient Express in 2017. It stars Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, with Branagh himself…
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Red Rocket
16 Feb 2022Red Rocket is a new movie written and directed by Sean Baker (The Florida Project). Simon Rex plays a loser hoping to revive his shady movie career with the aid of a young girl called Strawberry.
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Indian Sweets and Spices
9 Feb 2022Indian Sweets and Spices sees American-born Alia clash with her traditional Indian mother in suburban Ruby Hill. She is shocked to discover that Mum wasn't always as strait-laced and conservative as…
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Belfast
9 Feb 2022Belfast is based on Sir Kenneth Brannagh's memories of growing up in the Northern Ireland capital, just as the Troubles broke out. Starring Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Ciaran Hinds and young Jude Hill…
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Movie review - Licorice Pizza
2 Feb 2022Dan Slevin reviews the new coming-of-age comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza.
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Movie review - The Hating Game
2 Feb 2022The Hating Game is a romantic comedy about two publishing executives struggling with their mixed feelings for each other. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Review - The Electrical World of Louis Wain
8 Dec 2021The Electrical World of Louis Wain is an Amazon Prime feature about a Victorian English illustrator whose whimsical pictures of cats entranced the nation. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy…
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Review - Dune
8 Dec 2021Dune has defeated the best efforts of Hollywood in the past. Can Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) and an all-star cast triumph where others have failed. Stars Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya and…
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Movie review - Petite Maman
1 Dec 2021Petite Maman is a French "what if?" story about how an 8-year-old girl makes a new friend, who may be her mother at the same age. Written and directed by Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).
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Movie review - Venom: Let There Be Carnage
1 Dec 2021Venom: Let There Be Carnage sees Eddie (Tom Hardy) still hosting alien being Venom, but this time he confronts a bad guy in the same predicament. Features Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games) and…
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Review - Titane
1 Dec 2021French film Titane was a sensation when it won the Palme D'Or at Cannes this year. An erotic dancer moonlights as a serial killer, and has closer than normal feelings for American muscle cars -…
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Review - Breaking Bread
24 Nov 2021Breaking Bread covers an Arabic Food Festival in Israel, where pairs of chefs - one Jewish, one Arabic - set out to show that food can bring people together. It was the brainchild of Nof…
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Review -The Rescue
24 Nov 2021The Rescue is the story of the rescue mission that gripped the world in 2018, when a young Thai football team found themselves trapped at the end of an underground river. Directed by Jimmy Chin and…
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Review - Falling for Figaro
17 Nov 2021Falling for Figaro is the story of a successful bank executive who drops it all for opera. With Danielle Macdonald (Unbelievable), Hugh Skinner (Fleabag) and Joanna Lumley (The New Avengers). Directed…
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Review- Last Night in Soho
17 Nov 2021Last Night In Soho is director Edgar Wright's tribute to swinging London, starring New Zealander Thomasin McKenzie, with Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit), Matt Smith (Dr Who) and the late Dame…
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Review - The Garden of Evil
10 Nov 2021The Garden of Evil goes behind the scenes of the tragic murder of legendary New Zealand yachtsman Sir Peter Blake in 2001. Was it just a robbery gone wrong, or was it connected to Sir Peter's…
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Review - The Power of the Dog
10 Nov 2021The Power of the Dog is a western shot in Otago that's already won Dame Jane Campion a Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival.
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Review - The Green Knight
3 Nov 2021The Green Knight tells one of the earliest recorded stories of King Arthur and his nephew Gawain 's perilous quest. Features Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) and Alicia Vikander (Ex machina), directed…
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Review : The Last Duel
27 Oct 2021The Last Duel is the true story of the last 'trial by combat', where the truth depended on which combatant was victorious. Stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also wrote the script, and Jodie Comer…
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Movie Review : Lamb
20 Oct 2021Lamb sees a lonely couple on an Icelandic farm find new hope when one of their sheep gives birth to an unusual lamb.
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