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American Son Review – Provocative, or too safe?

Travis Akbar
November 5, 2019
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American Son is a Broadway play that has made the transition to film, with only four characters, it stars Kerry Washington (Fantastic 4, Django Unchained), Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me, AVP: Requiem), Jeremy Jor...

Yuli Review – So Much More Than Dance

Jeanette Muscat
October 31, 2019
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I was fortunate to pop along to the preview screening of Yuli – a beautiful and moving biopic about Cuban ballet dancer, Carlos Acosta (nicknamed Yuli by his father). As I write this, it’s World Ballet Day....

Mainstream Nerd Culture and the Dilemma of Success

Travis Johnson
October 28, 2019
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Weird how the nerd nation have suddenly decided that box office and profitability are the most important metrics after all these years of living in the genre ghetto. I mean, we spent decades having our cult...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Review – A Boring and Bland Bounty of Bullshit

Christopher Spencer
October 23, 2019
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Directed by Joachim Rønning, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil stars Angelina Jolie, returning as the titular dark fairy, dealing with her goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) becoming engaged to Prince Philip (Harris...

Judy Review – Base-Level Storytelling With Good Performances

Christopher Spencer
October 17, 2019
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Directed by Rupert Goold, Judy stars Renée Zellweger as the titular Judy Garland, reserved to performing at sold-out shows in London in 1969, approaching the last years of her life and career. Composed with Ga...

Escape and Evasion Review – Josh McConville Impresses in Ambitious Aussie War Film

Travis Johnson
October 17, 2019
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Following on from dark urban fantasy The School, writer and director Storm Ashwood cants in a very different direction with Escape and Evasion, which sees Josh McConville (1%, The Merger) as Seth, a former spe...

The King Review – A Brutal, Excoriating Warning Siren for the Left

Andrew F Peirce
October 10, 2019
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I’m not entirely sure why I doubted the talent of Timothée Chalamet. I adored him in Call Me By Your Name, but was yet to be equally stunned by subsequent performances, leading me to wonder whether he might fa...

Hustlers Review – An Exhilarating and Exciting Course Correcting Crime Film

Andrew F Peirce
October 9, 2019
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Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers is a refreshing revitalisation of the crime genre. Driven by two great central performances from Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez, this is a film that initially feels like it’s pullin...

Joker Review – An Ugly, Dark Movie That is Unlikeable

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October 8, 2019
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Directed and co-written by Todd Phillips, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a lonely and mentally-ill stand-up comedian struggling to survive in Gotham, a city at its lowest point. When an act of pu...

National Theatre Live: Fleabag Review – As Essential as the TV Show

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October 4, 2019
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having, what they call in the entertainment industry, ‘a moment’. Having just won a bucket load of Emmy’s for the second season of Fleabag (trumping expected winner Julia Louise Dreyfus...
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