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Playground Love: How Air scored The Virgin…

Nevertheless, Coppola knew what she wanted and, pressed for time, Godin and Dunckle returned to the studio for a weekend. In…

1 year ago

From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza review – a…

For anyone that has paid even a modicum of attention to the daily images coming out of Palestine, the scenes that…

1 year ago

The Christophers – first-look review

The aging painter Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) of Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers is introduced recording cameos, donning a beret for the occasion…

1 year ago

Below The Clouds – first-look review

If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,…

1 year ago

In the Hand of Dante – first-look review

In his narrative poem ​‘The Divine Comedy’, accepted to have been written between 1308 and 1321 and widely considered to…

1 year ago

The Wizard of the Kremlin – first-look review

The loudest reaction during both press screenings of Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin at the Venice Film Festival happened…

1 year ago

Bugonia – first-look review | Little White Lies

Although Lanthimos has moved away from the stilted hyper-stylised hallmarks which announced him to the filmmaking world at large, his…

1 year ago

The Life Of Chuck review – soliloquy soup

This year Mike Flanagan, known best for turning horror’s greatest novels into palatable limited television series for Netflix, is switching…

1 year ago

The extreme vulnerability of Joaquin Phoenix

Looking at his last four projects, it seems that Phoenix perfected his precise working formula – hyper-ambitious, complex-to-realise films from…

1 year ago

Sorry, Baby review – a film about holding on to…

Something very bad happened to Agnes. It’s hinted at in the first segment of Sorry, Baby, when her best friend Lydie…

1 year ago