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Film Review - One of Them Days
Keke Palmer and SZA are friends and flatmates desperate to avoid eviction in Lawrence Lamont’s enjoyable farcical comedy
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Pretty Woman: 35 Years On
Does Garry Marshall's famous romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere hold up well today?
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Film Review - Mickey 17
Robert Pattinson captivates in Boon Joon-ho’s eccentric satirical sci-fi black comedy
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The Hunt for Red October: 35 Years On
Sean Connery dominates John McTiernan's adaptation of Tom Clancy's bestseller, but these days, the film feels more alarming
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Novel: The Thistlewood Curse Chapter 17
A detective and her paranormal consultant suspect supernaturally assisted murder after the sudden heart attack of a Lord’s son on Lundy Island
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Video: Ramblings on the Place of Realism in Storytelling
Why I don't believe in realism for the sake of it
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Film Review - The Last Showgirl
Gia Coppola’s uneven tale of a Las Vegas dancer facing redundancy features a first-rate performance from Pamela Anderson
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Film Review - I'm Still Here
Fernanda Torres is superb in Walter Salles's true story of the Brazilian dictatorship's tragic impact on one family during the early 1970s and beyond
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Oscar Winners 2025
Horror and science fiction are overlooked by the Academy as usual, but there have been far worse big winners than Anora
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Film Review - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof’s riveting thriller and scathing condemnation of the Iranian regime proves an urgent example of cinema as protest
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February 2025

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