James Marsh
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She has been dubbed “America’s sweetheart”, was at one time Hollywood’s highest-paid actress, and won an Oscar and a Razzie in the same weekend, but Sandra Bullock’s rise to the… Read More
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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return to Isla Nublar, this time to save the dinosaurs from an imminent extinction all over again, but there are nefarious plans ahead. (at… Read More
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Today he’s one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but as recently as five years ago, Chris Pratt was largely unknown to the movie-going public. Television audiences had warmed to him in… Read More
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Clive Owen stars as a homicide detective on the trail of a vicious killer who makes the victims watch their own death in this near-future science fiction, where society has… Read More
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Fish Liew stars in Derek Chiu’s drama of social unrest in Hong Kong, as a student caught up in the 1967 Maoist protests, as well as the aftermath of the… Read More
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Japan has one of the world’s most prolific independent film scenes, one where soft-core pornography and eccentric auteurism regularly go hand in hand. The Limit of Sleeping Beauty falls squarely… Read More
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First-time director Sung Hsin-yin reviews the last 40 years of Taiwanese history in her tender yet powerful animated debut, in which an Americanised young woman returns home following the death… Read More
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A US Army sharpshooter finds himself pinned down by an Iraqi sniper in The Wall, a stripped-down military thriller by Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow). Caught beneath the searing desert… Read More
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British actor Peter Turner’s memoir Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, detailing his romance with Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, has been brought to the screen by Paul McGuigan, probably best… Read More
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George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead remains one of the most intelligent and influential zombie films ever made, pushing the limits of practical make-up effects, while simultaneously advancing the… Read More
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The ugly side of China’s economic boom is explored in Walking Past the Future, which premiered as the only Chinese entrant at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But despite the… Read More
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The second standalone Star Wars adventure takes a look back at the origins and early misadventures of Han Solo. Alden Ehrenreich takes the lead, alongside Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and… Read More
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Love is the root of all evil – or so you might surmise from Birds Without Names. In the latest film by Kazuya Shiraishi (Dawn of the Felines), Yu Aoi… Read More
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Celebrated Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó follows his sensational canine thriller White God with a visually enticing superhero origin story, struck from the socially potent furnace of European art-house cinema. Read… Read More
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The discovery of a woman’s body in an abandoned flat presents police detective Kyoichiro Kaga (Hiroshi Abe) with his most personal case yet, in this latest mystery from bestselling author… Read More
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Colin Farrell reteams with The Lobster’s Yorgos Lanthimos for a bleak, unnerving and darkly humorous tale of manipulation and revenge. Read More
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Takeshi Kitano caps his yakuza comeback trilogy in fine style with a typically convoluted tale of shifting loyalties and underhand power plays within Osaka’s Hanabishi-kai crime syndicate. Honing in once… Read More
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Following the surprise success of Deadpool a sequel was inevitable, and two years on Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as the “merc with the mouth” for an amped-up second go-around.… Read More
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