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Olivier is brilliant as the utter bastard who schemes and murders his way through his own family to seize the British throne for himself. The third of Larry’s big screen… Read More
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This is what happens when H.G. Wells is allowed to make a science fiction. Visually impressive, wildly prescient and stunning in its ambition. Read More
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The only film to co-star British cinematic icons (and long-time friends) Michael Caine and Sean Connery, The Man Who Would Be King is a late-career highlight from American director John… Read More
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Largely unwarranted biopic is less interested in the Princess’ final years than in punishing its audience with risible dialogue and obsessing over non-events. Read my full review here Read More
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Excellent psycho-drama pitting James Fox’s young toff against Dirk Bogarde’s working class manservant. Tony (Fox) moves into a new London townhouse, and employs Barrett (Bogarde) to tend to his affairs.… Read More
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Pure cinema. Fantastically staged, inventively shot and robustly performed. Epic, intimate, claustrophobic & thrilling. See it BIG. Read my full review here. Read More
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Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece ranks as one of my favourite films of all-time and the opportunity to see it on the big screen with a Fantastic Fest audience was not… Read More
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British filmaker and self-confessed Stone Roses fan Shane Meadows chronicles the legendary Manchester band’s brief and heated comeback in fine style in this passionate documentary. Meadows takes the time to… Read More
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Michael Winterbottom’s rose-tinted biopic of Paul Raymond, purveyor of pornography and sleaze in London’s SoHo, creates a wonderfully authentic sense of time and place, and boasts a pair of knockout… Read More
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While first-time documentarian Kate Shenton clearly has the best interests of her subjects at heart, this documentary into the underground world of human suspension shows plenty of piercings, torn flesh… Read More
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Ben Wheatley’s latest is an incredibly bold, baffling, beautiful and quite brilliant period horror flick that follows a group of deserting civil war soldiers as they get embroiled in a… Read More
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It has been a very long time since I have seen this, but was definitely a highlight when it first arrived back in 1995. An incredible debut from Danny Boyle,… Read More
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A film that hugely rewards revisiting, particularly in the wake of the hugely successful TV series (and film) The Trip, in which Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon took their onscreen… Read More
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Continuing my journey through the works of Nicolas Winding Refn, this unlikely entry in the director’s canon was a made-for-TV movie following Agatha Christie’s beloved amateur sleuth. Geraldine McEwan stars… Read More
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I remember catching this on TV very late one night, as a young impressionable teen. At the time, the sight of a scantily glad Amanda Donohoe was enough to set… Read More
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Made right off the back of Doctor Who and the Daleks‘ success, Peter Cushing reprises his role as the affable time traveller, who this time stays on Earth, albeit nearly… Read More
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This rather quaint soft-hearted approach to the beloved timelord sees Peter Cushing portray a human version of the time travelling space adventurer, who brings along his niece, granddaughter and the… Read More
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One of my favourite films from last year stands up remarkably well to repeat viewing at home. This fetishised exploration of Italian giallo filmmaking, analogue sound recording and foley effects,… Read More
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