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Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson constructs this brilliantly immersive First World War documentary from hundreds of hours of unseen footage, to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Armistice. Download the… Read More
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What if Superman was evil? That’s the high-concept pitch of Brightburn, a super-villain origin story produced by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, and written by his brothers Brian… Read More
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Keanu Reeves returns once again as the retired assassin, who now has the global underworld on his trail. Read More
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The last few years have produced a slew of riveting survival thrillers, pitting Man vs Nature in some of the most hostile environments imaginable. Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar for… Read More
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Like the lank-haired spirit of Hideo Nakata’s J-horror classic Ring, “krasue” are similarly malevolent female demons, prolific throughout southeast Asian folklore. Manifesting as a floating head that trails its internal… Read More
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Ryan Reynolds channels a family-friendly Deadpool performance into the voice of Pikachu, Pokémon’s iconic yellow fuzzball, a hotshot sleuth with crippling amnesia, who teams up with the son of his… Read More
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Cannes Best Actor winner Marcello Fonti gives an incredible performance as the lowly proprietor of a dog salon, whose life becomes violently intertwined with that of a local hoodlum in… Read More
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Following recent gender-flipped remakes Ghostbusters and Ocean’s 8 , Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson look to put a feminist spin on the 1988 hit comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, as a… Read More
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Bollywood launches into the superhero arena with Vasan Bala’s The Man Who Feels No Pain, a gleefully big-hearted homage, not to the blockbuster comic-book franchises of today, but the golden… Read More
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Eleven years after Iron Man was introduced to unsuspecting summer crowds, Marvel Studios wraps up their unprecedented 22 film “Infinity Saga” with a rousing victory lap that bursts with emotional… Read More
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A young amnesiac and a grieving widower find a modicum of solace in each other’s company in the debut feature from Nanako Hirose, former assistant to acclaimed filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda.… Read More
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The multi Oscar-nominated wartime romance from Ida director Paweł Pawlikowski finally arrives in Hong Kong, riding a wave of glowing reviews. Read More
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Following on from acclaimed true-life thrillers such as United 93 and Argo, Hotel Mumbai recreates the horrific 2008 terror attacks in the Indian city, that claimed 174 lives and wounded… Read More
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After just five films, James Wan’s The Conjuring series has become the second highest-grossing horror franchise in cinema history, with only Godzilla earning more. The producer now brings Latin American… Read More
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Emotionally challenging documentary about the short and tragic life of genius fashion designer Alexander McQueen, featuring show-stopping footage from many of his iconic runway shows. Download the podcast Read More
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Pretty young things Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse die gracefully of cystic fibrosis. Download the podcast Read More
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Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart star in this American remake of the French blockbuster hit, The Intouchables. Pretty much everything else stays the same. Download the podcast Read More
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Anthony Wong plays a curmudgeonly wheelchair-bound divorcee who forms an unlikely friendship with his new Filipino domestic helper, bringing a great deal of humour to the drama. Download the podcast Read More
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