Sweetheart (2021) Director: Marley Morrison Screenwriter: Marley Morrison Starring: Nell Barlow, Jo Hartley, Tabitha Byron, Sophia Di Martino, Samuel Anderson, Ella-Rae Smith, Steffan Cennydd Being forced on a seaside holiday with your entire family as a painfully awkward teenager is a British right of passage. It’s even worse for the kids submerged in any kind […]
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Rocks (2020) Director: Sarah Gavron Screenwriters: Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson Starring: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Sarah Niles The British film industry has a strange fixation with putting on appearances. Looking at Oscar winners and nominees of years past, the films our small isle pushes forward the most are royalty, literature
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The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020) Director: Armando Ianucci Screenwriters: Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci Starring: Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw, Ranveer Jaiswal, Daisy May Cooper, Darren Boyd, Gwendoline Christie The idea of the departed looking down upon the world of the living with confusion and exasperation has been a
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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 Dozen Summers (2015) Director: Kenton Hall Starring: Hero Hall, Scarlet Hall, Kenton Hall, Sarah Warren, Colin Baker, Ewen Macintosh, David Knight, Holly Jacobson, Quinton Nyrienda, Richard Stephenson Winter, Robert Bilic andTallulah Sheffield Plot: A young boy and girl begin a magical adventure on an ordinary school day…until the Narrator is frightened off by local 12 year
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