Film
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John Thewall is released from prison with his hands damaged from torture. Coleridge and Sara are conflicted as to whether it is safe to let him stay in the country with them and he is asked to leave.
August 29, 2024
17 mins
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The unusual dual nature of the nightjar is presented in both the beginning of the film, where its cry signifies a bad omen of the horrible things to come, and at the very end, where it represents a sign of hope and renewal.
August 25, 2024
14 mins
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Peter Dinklage is arguably the most successful and gifted dwarf actor of all time. He is the most recent in a long line of famous Hollywood small actors (or midgets),
May 28, 2024
18 mins
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'I have watched director Alex Ranarivelo's film at least a dozen times and it always brings me to tears. It is one of the finest fighting films ever made. Not only does it look unflinchingly into the worlds of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and the early history of mixed martial arts fighting, it is also a bitter-sweet love story, almost a Greek tragedy'
May 11, 2024
13 mins
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When I get the chance, I like to take them […]
April 29, 2024
15 mins
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Gerard Depardieu had just reconciled with son Guillaume when they appeared together in this beautiful labour-of-love of a film about sorrow, loss and the melancholy of an artist summoning the presence of a beloved lost family member through the solace of work. How was Depardieu to know that soon this would also be his own fate?
February 11, 2024
15 mins
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It is pretty clear why A.J Quinnell couldn’t recognise his book in the 1987 film. But I’m sure he was seduced, as were the rest of us, by director Tony Scott’s dramatic and action-packed direction of the 2004 remake, even though that one also diverged from the original story. The money Quinnell received from the film’s huge success wouldn’t have hurt
December 16, 2023
19 mins
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This remarkable, if slightly flawed, ticking-timebomb of movie by John Frankenheimer, one of Hollywood’s finest old-school directors and a pioneer of the modern-day political thriller, wasn't well received when released in 1977. At a distance of decades, and especially after the 9/11 massacres, its prescience in foreseeing a painstakingly orchestrated terror attack on American soil is, like the film itself, much easier to appreciate
November 26, 2023
19 mins
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The story begins in 1941 in the Egyptian desert, where David Stirling is beside himself with frustration that efforts to relieve Tobruk are coming to nought. He proposes an elite group of well-trained malcontents to attack from the desert interior and destroy Rommel’s airfields and supply convoys. All of that is true, as is most of the very well done six-part series Stirling & Co inspired
September 9, 2023
18 mins
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The English critic Frank Howes once observed that Edward Elgar reflected 'the last blaze of opulence, expansiveness and full-blooded life before World War I swept so much away'. Director Paul Yule's Elgar’s Tenth Muse is an account of the composer's quest to reignite the fires of inspiration after his wife's death. Underpinned by his gorgeous music, it is a film to be watched many times
July 22, 2023
12 mins
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Asked to be a part of a documentary exploring their working relationship and its much-lauded fruits, celebrated biographer Robert Caro and his editor of 50 years, Robert Gottlieb, both initially said no, believing 'the work between a writer and an editor is too private for anyone else to see'. That each eventually relented is something to be celebrated, as the resulting film is a fascinating delight
June 18, 2023
18 mins
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The BBC six-part thriller focuses on the abuse and manipulation of cutting-edge deep-fake CCTV footage for personal and political ends. Yes, it's fiction, but only just. During the recent lockdowns, New South Wales and Victoria trialled facial recognition software to help enforce movement-restriction laws, while in Western Australia monitored almost 100,000 people to assure compliance with COVID edicts
June 3, 2023
13 mins