Review
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Jeffrey McHale investigates the enduring legacy of Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven’s Vegas stripper version of All About Eve, derided on original release, but now regarded as a camp cult classic. Download… Read More
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Psychotic possessed killer doll Chucky is a back in a new reboot of the original Child’s Play franchise, but how does it compare with those that have come before it?… Read More
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Following in the grand tradition of master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, A Long Goodbye is forged not from earth-shattering drama, but rather the minutiae of everyday struggles that test the bonds… Read More
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Even before Moxy, our Kelly Clarkson-voiced heroine, begins belting out the opening number of UglyDolls, an animated feature film inspired by a line of plush toys, audiences will have a… Read More
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Max Zhang stars as a Hong Kong cop on the trailer of a serial killer who targets female police officers in Fruit Chan’s woeful martial arts thriller. Download the podcast Read More
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Bong Joon-ho’s wonderful urban satire arrives in Hong Kong, fresh from its Palme d’Or win at Cannes. Download the podcast Read More
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Taron Egerton gives a powerhouse performance as Elton John, in this all-singing, all-dancing, drug and sex fuelled look back at the life and career of the great showman. Download the… Read More
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In certain instances of kidnapping, robbery or terrorism, hostages have been known to develop compassionate, cooperative relationships with their captors. Known as Stockholm syndrome, this psychological phenomenon of irrational alliance… Read More
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Chris Hemsworth and his Thor: Ragnarok co-star Tessa Thompson re-team for this spin-off sequel to Barry Sonnenfeld’s hit alien action series. Download the podcast Read More
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Mel Gibson and Sean Penn attempt to out-weird – and out-beard – each other, in the bizarrely captivating story of the creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary. Download the… Read More
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The food of ethnically diverse Singapore is celebrated in this warm, sentimental tale of family roots and forgotten recipes by director Eric Khoo (In the Room). Khoo’s film is a… Read More
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K-pop artists Jung Eun-ji (from the girl band Apink) and Lee Sung-yeol (of boy band Infinite) make their big screen debuts in first-time director You Sun-dong’s supernatural thriller. They form… Read More
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When the time-travelling shenanigans of 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past inadvertently erased the events of 2006’s much-maligned X-Men: The Last Stand, 20th Century Fox’s Marvel-adjacent franchise was gifted the… Read More
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Seth Rogen plays a disgruntled online journalist who is hired as the new speechwriter for his former babysitter (Charlize Theron), now the Secretary of State, as she launches her Presidential… Read More
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The mighty atomic kaiju returns in the 35th official Toho movie, and the third instalment in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, after 2014’s Godzilla and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island. This time out, Gojira… Read More
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In Birthday, South Korean heavyweights Sul Kyung-gu and Jeon Do-yeon deliver a masterclass in on-screen bereavement as parents grieving after their son’s death in the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster. Viewers… Read More
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Allison Williams and Logan Browning play rival cellists in a delightfully bonkers horror film that takes audiences on a bonkers, twisty-turny ride that defies your wildest expectations. Watch The Perfection… Read More
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Will Smith fills the mighty big shoes…or lamp…vacated by Robin Williams, in Disney’s latest live-action remake of a revered animated classic. Guy Ritchie directs, and amazingly, it all works far… Read More
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