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Peterloo (2018) Review
Peterloo (2018) Director: Mike Leigh Screenwriter: Mike Leigh Starring: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Rachel Finnegan, Tom Meredith, Simona Bitmate, Robert Wilfort, John-Paul Hurley, Victor McGuire Veteran British director Mike Leigh returns with a new, big budget historical drama about the massacre of St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, where in the summer of…
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Hymn of Hate (2018) Short Film Review
Hymn of Hate (2018) Director: Matt Kennard Screenwriter: Matt Kennard Starring: Russell Tovey, Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Knott Hymn of Hate begins with the sound of a quiet swell of wind against grass, the black screen reading credits. The deep tones of a deftly composed war score welcome the opening shot of a camera tracking across a…
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First Man (2018) Review
First Man (2018) Director: Damien Chazelle Screenwriter: Josh Singer Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Ethan Embry, Ciarán Hinds, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Patrick Fugit First Man, the 2018 mid-budget Universal release from Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle, will be about the most divisive movie of the year when 2018 comes to a close, owing…
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Halloween (2018) Review
Halloween (2018) Director: David Gordon Green Screenplay: David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jeff Fradley Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichack, James Jude Courtney It has been 40 years since we received the first instalment in the Halloween franchise from director John Carpenter, and this Halloween season (2018), David Gordon Green brings us a sequel that can proudly sit…
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Hereditary (2018) Review
Hereditary (2018) Director: Ari Aster Screenwriter: Ari Aster Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd I’m a massive scaredy cat, but I’m a cat that enjoys the fright, so I agreed to go and see the new hot horror film Hereditary with my sisters. I don’t really watch TV anymore these…
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Leatherface (2017) Review
Leatherface (2017) Director: Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo Screenplay: Seth M. Sherwood Starring: Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Grasse, Sam Strike, Lili Taylor Leatherface is a…horror film? I think the scariest thing about it is that it was made. If you’re a fan of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but you also wanna know how Leatherface got…
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Submarine (2010) Snapshot Review
Submarine (2010) Director: Richard Ayoade Screenwriter: Richard Ayoade Starring: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine Richard Ayoade’s darkly humourous adaptation of Joe Dunthorpe’s coming of age novel Submarine is a movie that feels like a song by The Smiths wrapped in the sort of self-aware cinematic tropes that paint a picture of…
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A Star Is Born (2018) Review
A Star Is Born (2018) Director: Bradley Cooper Screenwriters: Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth Starring: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Anthony Ramos, Andrew Dice Clay, Rafi Gavron, Greg Grunberg A Star Is Born has returned to the silver screen for the fourth time, with the 2018 incarnation being driven by screenwriter, director…
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Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) Review
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) Director: Fumihiko Sori Screenwriters: Fumihiko Sori, Takeshi Miyamoto Starring: Ryôsuke Yamada, Tsubasa Honda, Dean Fujioka, Ryûta Satô, Misako Renbutsu, Yô Ôizumi Nothing gives me The Fear quite like the announcement of an anime live-action adaptation. So when it was publicised that ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ was the latest victim in line for the guillotine, I was understandably…
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The Lost Boys (1987) Snapshot Review
The Lost Boys (1987) Director: Joel Schumacher Screenwriters: Jan Fischer, James Jeremias, Jeffrey Boam Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander The Lost Boys brought vampire narratives back into focus for the MTV-era with a peroxide mullet-sporting villain at the helm. Panned by critics but coveted…