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An all-star cast is assembled for more fairytale hijinks that can’t shake off the fact it feels like a live-action Frozen remake. Listen to my review (at 41:05) Read More
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Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this vigorous, blood-and-mud-smeared adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. Listen to my review (at 32:30) Read More
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Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion drama follows a depressed customer service guru as he goes through a mid-life crisis. Listen to my review (at 25:50) Read More
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Released in 1952, Fixed Bayonets! marked the first studio picture directed by Samuel Fuller, and his second in a row that would depict the still-in-progress Korean War. Read my review Read More
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Martial arts fans anticipating Sammo Hung Kam-bo’s first directorial effort in close to 20 years will be left sorely disappointed by The Bodyguard. Read my review Read More
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Taron Egerton continues his career ascendency with a cracking performance as celebrated British underdog Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards. Listen to my review Read More
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A disparate group of loners, dreamers and extraterrestrials congregate at a restaurant to contemplate their fate in Japanese filmmaker Koki Mitani’s feeble, sluggish comedy. Read my review Read More
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Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau sets his sights on the city’s recent political unrest for The Mobfathers, his second new film (after Nessun Dorma) to debut at this year’s… Read More
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An overachieving rabbit rookie and a street smart fox go in search of missing mammals in Disney’s excellent animated adventure. It’s also, like, an allegory about racial prejudice, man. Listen to… Read More
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In the wake of critically and commercially successful Taiwanese films such as Wei Te-sheng’s period war epic Seediq Bale (2011) and Umin Boya’s feel-good baseball drama Kano (2014), there are… Read More
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Seven years after his debut feature One Night In Supermarket, writer-director Yang Qing turns in another comedic crime caper set in his hometown of Chongqing. Read my review Read More
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DC Comics kick-starts its expanded cinematic universe by pitting its two greatest superheroes against one another in Zack Snyder’s hugely anticipated follow-up to 2013’s Man Of Steel. Read my review Read More
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For many mainstream filmgoers, Farewell My Concubine is perhaps the best-known Chinese language film of the 1990s, helped in no end by its success at the Cannes Film Festival. Read… Read More
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After winning Italy the Oscar for The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino delivers a wryly amusing meditation on humanity and old age. Listen to my review (at 14:25) Read More
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Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston earned himself an Oscar nomination for his performance as Blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. Listen to my review (at 07:55) Read More
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A wayward tween and her ex-con uncle form an unlikely duo in Mark Noonan’s low-key drama, set in a remote part of Ireland’s Midlands Region. Read my review Read More
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The Coen brothers return their signature gaze at 1950s Hollywood in this delightfully screwball and star-studded caper. Listen to my review (at 25:48) Read More
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