Review
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Since first shuffling onto our screens, zombie films have been employed as allegories for issues ranging from civil rights to consumerism and the one per cent. In The Cured, writer-director… Read More
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British Cinema has produced some of the best romantic comedies ever made, from Educating Rita and Four Weddings and a Funeral to Bridget Jones’ Diary and Love Actually. But they… Read More
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As if the horrors of war weren’t terrifying enough, producer J.J. Abrams pits a squad of inexperienced second world war paratroopers against a cadre of Nazi scientists and their mutant… Read More
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Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario was one of my favourite films of 2015. The sequel does without many of the key players, most notably Emily Blunt, Roger Deakins and Villeneuve, but remembers… Read More
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Flamboyant, bombastic, yet sanitised and sketchy on detail, Bohemian Rhapsody plays it safe recounting the rise of rock legends Queen and the turbulent life of iconic frontman Freddie Mercury. Rami… Read More
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Lightning may never strike twice, but Norwegian geologist Kristian Eikjord (played by Kristoffer Joner) and his family are not so lucky. Just three years after surviving a deadly tsunami in… Read More
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Following the incredible success of zombie juggernaut Train to Busan , Korean studio NEW hopes to recapture the box office magic with Rampant by unleashing undead hordes on Korean cinema’s… Read More
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It’s Gerard Butler on a submarine…what more do you need to know? (at 31:44) Read More
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In 1978, John Carpenter first unleashed the faceless killer Michael Myers on an unsuspecting population of precocious teenagers, giving rise to the slasher genre and changing the horror landscape forever.… Read More
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Cafe Funiculi Funicula employs a fantastical time-travel premise to teach its characters how to seize the moment and let go of their regrets. Inevitably less interested in science fiction than… Read More
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We’ve probably all seen enough zombies and “films within films” to last a dozen lifetimes, yet Shinichiro Ueda’s innovative horror comedy proves there is still nourishment to be sucked from… Read More
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Timo Tjahanto pits The Raid stars Joe Taslim and Iko Uwais against each other in a bombastic, exhausting rollercoaster of bone-crunching action, in which a triad foot-soldier grows a conscience… Read More
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Bradley Cooper reveals himself to be a more than competent musician and an excellent director in this reimagining of the classic narrative, as a washed-up rock star who discovers the… Read More
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Pretty, precocious teens meet their grisly end at a Halloween themed theme park in this derivative and occasionally nasty slasher. (at 11:30) Read More
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John Cho becomes the first Asian American actor ever to headline a mainstream Hollywood thriller in Aneesh Chaganty’s inventive webcam drama about a father searching for his missing daughter. Read More
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Arriving hot on the heels of Eric Matti’s similarly plotted but decidedly more entertaining BuyBust, Brillante Mendoza’s Alpha, the Right to Kill is a down and dirty frontline take on… Read More
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Gareth Evans, director of The Raid, returns home to Wales and whips up this dark, gothic, pseudo-religious thriller in the vein of The Wicker Man and Hammer Horror. (at 24:20) Read More
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The first solo feature from director Jevons Au focuses on the numerous problems and challenges facing special needs children, their families and the education system that struggles to accommodate them. Read More
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