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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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Saoirse Ronan stars as a young Irish woman setting off to start a new life in New York during the 1950s. Listen to my review Read More
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Grief, memory and the importance of letting go are all central to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest drama, which won the best director prize in the Un Certain Regard section of last… Read More
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Rarely has Hong Kong politics been addressed as overtly as in Ten Years, a speculative science fiction anthology from a quintet of the city’s most promising young directors. Read my… Read More
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Seth Grahame-Smith ushered in a stream of high-concept literary mash-ups with his 2009 novel Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, which has since spawned such diverse publications as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire… Read More
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Gerard Butler finds himself taking up arms to save Aaron Eckhart’s US President once again in this expanded sequel to Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen. Read my review Read More
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This year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner is a harrowing, yet unmissable, look at like in a Nazi concentration camp. Listen to my review (at 40:30) Read More
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