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The onset of the holidays means it is awards season in Hollywood. While plenty of this year’s contenders, including Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Jon M. Chu’s… Read More
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The last few days have seen Hong Kong reeling from the unspeakable tragedy of the fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, which has left at least 146 people… Read More
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Edgar Wright directs Glen Powell in this largely faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s early sci-fi effort. A huge departure from the beloved 1987 version, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the results may… Read More
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Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans burst onto the action scene with The Raid (2011) and The Raid 2 (2014), a bone-crushing brace of visceral Indonesian martial arts films that propelled its… Read More
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An ordinary working-class family is turned upside-down when their 13-year-old son is arrested for murder. Stephen Graham co-one of the year’s most controversial and acclaimed television series. Steve and I… Read More
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Former Take That star Robbie Williams gets the music biopic treatment, but in a departure from traditional, the 90s pop icon is portrayed onscreen as an anthropomorphised CGI chimpanzee. What’s… Read More
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Sir Ian McKellen plays an ageing grifter who sets his sights on wealthy widow Helen Mirren, only to bite off more than he can chew. (at 26:45) Read More
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Newcomer Himesh Patel stars as a struggling musician who awakes from a freak global incident to discover that The Beatles never existed – and spies an opportunity to give his… Read More
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After the success of Senna and Amy, documentarian Asif Kapadia turns his attentions to the world’s greatest living footballer. (at 6:50) Read More
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Tough British drama with fantastical elements, about a young woman struggling to put her life together after becoming the victim of an acid attack perpetrated by her former lover. Download… 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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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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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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Olivia Colman plays Queen Anne, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone the women vying to control her, in Lanthimos’ grotesquely funny period comedy. Download the podcast Read More
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On 12 August, 2000, an explosion on the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk caused it to sink in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 naval personnel on board. The disaster… Read More
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The swashbuckling exploits of Robin Hood and his Merry Men have percolated through British folklore since the mid-14th century, from ballads and poems to numerous film and TV adaptations. In… Read More
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J. K. Rowling delivers the second of her Potterverse prequels, upping the ante and layering on the allegory. But does it balance the light with the dark sufficiently for younger… 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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