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Keiko Tsuruoka: ‘The starting line for me was the…
Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges…
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H is for Hawk review – occasionally falters, but…
Grief never really goes away, but its initial impact takes many forms. Some people are paralysed for months on end.…
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No Other Choice review – Park at his most biting…
In Donald Westlake’s 1997 horror novel ‘The Ax’, a recently laid-off manager at a paper company decides to thin out the competition…
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Inside the North West Film Clubs building a…
Without the glossy production values that come with screening in a multiplex, film clubs like Speed and Strike sell themselves on…
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Bulk review – homemade sci-fi noir trades…
Many – myself included – were thrown through a bit of a loop when Brit golden boy Ben Wheatley presented his 2013…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review –…
Poor Spike (Alfie Williams) hasn’t been having the best time during the zombie apocalypse. After the events of 28 Years…
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Bowie: The Final Act review – revisiting the…
In 2016, David Bowie’s death shook the world like a supernova – a deliberately-staged explosion that collapsed a lifetime of personas into a single, blinding…
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State of Statelessness review – an intimate…
This is a film about the constant sense of being slightly out of step with where you are standing, rendered with…
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Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley could make a stone…
This is a film about what it means to have children and the pulverising consequences that come from potentially losing them…
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Giant review – another tired boxing biopic for…
It’s nearing a quarter-century since the retirement of “Prince” Naseem Hamed, Sheffield’s world champion boxer of Yemeni heritage. For a while, in…
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