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Review: The Rose Maker
13 Oct 2021The Rose Maker features French star Catherine Frot as a rose-grower on the verge of bankruptcy who gets assistance from an unexpected quarter.
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Review: No Time To Die
13 Oct 2021No Time to Die is the final Bond film starring Daniel Craig as 007. It features Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ana de Armas Ralph Fiennes and a song from Billie Eilish.
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Review: Ride the Eagle
29 Sep 2021In Ride the Eagle a Californian musician - Jake Johnson (New Girl) - is sent by his late mother on a voyage of self-discovery. With Susan Sarandon (Thelma and Louise) and J K Simmons (Whiplash).
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Review: The Ice Road
29 Sep 2021The Ice Road sees Liam Neeson lead a group of truckers on a rescue mission across a frozen lake in northern Canada. Also featuring Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Amber Midthunder (Roswell New…
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Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
22 Sep 2021Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings draws on Chinese myths and legends, as well as the all-conquering Marvel Comics country. Featuring Chinese superstars Tony Leung and Michele Yeoh, and popular…
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Review: The Night House
22 Sep 2021The Night House sees Rebecca Hall (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women) as a widow under siege in her new house from mysterious forces.
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Review: Reminiscence
15 Sep 2021Reminiscence is set in a post-war future, where the seas have risen and the biggest drug on the market is nostalgia. Stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe Newton, it's directed by Lisa Joy…
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Review: Summer of Soul
15 Sep 2021Summer of soul is a documentary about a forgotten Harlem music festival. A month before the more famous Woodstock Festival, it boasted some of the top soul, pop and jazz artists of all time. Featuring…
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Movie review: 9/11: Inside the President's War Room
Dan Slevin reviews a new documentary about the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, streaming on Apple TV+.
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TV review: Raised by Wolves
Raised by Wolves is a 10-part science-fiction series streaming on Neon and the first two episodes are directed by Ridley Scott. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Movie review: Cinderella
Dan Slevin reviews Cinderella from Amazon Prime, a new version featuring a selection of repurposed pop songs from the last 40 years.
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Movie review: The White Tiger
The White Tiger is a drama based on a Booker Prize winning novel about a young Indian man trying to break down the economic and social barriers that hold him back. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Movie review: Field of Dreams
1 Sep 2021In times of uncertainty, says Dan Slevin, it can feel good to wrap yourself up in something cosy and familiar that can always be relied on to make you feel better.
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Movie review: Let Them All Talk
1 Sep 2021Steven Soderbergh's Let Them All Talk stars Meryl Streep as an author taking her oldest friends on a trip across the Atlantic. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Theatre review: Frankenstein
1 Sep 2021Benedict Cumberbatch plays a monster made of reanimated body parts in the National Theatre at Home production of Frankenstein. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Movie review: Count Me In
1 Sep 2021Count Me In is a Netflix documentary about rock drummers. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Review - Utopia
25 Aug 2021Dan Slevin reviews the ABC television satire series Utopia about a federal agency tasked with boosting Australia’s infrastructure.
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Movie review - Max Richter’s Sleep
25 Aug 2021Dan Slevin wholeheartedly recommends this documentary about composer Max Richter's 8.5-hour ‘lullaby’ being performed in front of an audience of sleeping people.
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Movie review: The Mole Agent
11 Aug 2021In this Chilean documentary, an 82-year-old widower is enlisted by a private detective to investigate alleged abuse at a retirement home. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Movie review: Coming Home in the Dark
11 Aug 2021New Zealand actor Daniel Gillies is superbly villainous in Coming Home in the Dark - a deadpan horror about a middle-class Kiwi family on a road trip into the backblocks. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Movie review: The Suicide Squad
11 Aug 2021This reboot/sequel of DC's supervillain action-comedy again stars Margot Robbie. But unlike the first Suicide Squad movie of 2016, it's funny, smart and light on its feet, says Dan Slevin.
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The Justice of Bunny King
4 Aug 2021Essie Davis stars in the debut feature from Gaysorn Thavat about a homeless solo mum battling to be reunited with her kids. Reviewed by Dan Slevin.
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Review - Waiting for Anya
28 Jul 2021Waiting for Anya is an adaptation of a book by Sir Michael Morpurgo (War Horse). Set in Occupied France, a village woman (Anjelica Huston) protects a group of Jewish children, hoping them to smuggle…
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Review -The Sparks Brothers
21 Jul 2021Edgar Wright's documentary about American group Sparks is released just as band-members Russell and Ron Mael launch their own musical, Annette, at the Cannes Film Festival. The Sparks Brothers…
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