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Movie Review – Gloria Bell (2019)

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Gloria Bell, 2019.Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera and Alanna Ubach.SYNOPSIS: A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.English-language remakes of hit foreign films rarely go over well, and usually for good reason, but it’s a different case altogether when the original filmmaker opts to handle the […]

Movie Review – X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix, 2019.Directed by Simon Kinberg. Starring Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters and Alexandra Shipp.SYNOPSIS:Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix. Now the X-Men will have to decide if the life of […]

Movie Review – After We Leave (2019)

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After We Leave, 2019.Directed by Aleem Hossain Starring Brian Silverman, Clay Wilcox, Anslem Richardson, Anita Leeman Torres, James Black, Naomi SalamonSYNOPSIS:A near future earth, ravaged by human abuse, offers people the chance to emigrate to off-planet habitats. When Jack (Brian Silverman) is awarded his couples travel VISA, he must navigate his past, as well as […]

Movie Review – Gloria Bell (2018)

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Gloria Bell, 2018.Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera, Caren Pistorius, Holland Taylor, Brad Garrett and Sean Astin.SYNOPSIS:A middle-aged divorcée begins to reclaim her lust for life when she starts a new relationship.The drive to remake foreign language films in English is often a sad one – a mark of the […]

Sundance London 2019 Review – The Death of Dick Long

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The Death of Dick Long, 2019.Directed by Daniel Scheinert. Starring Michael Abbott Jr, Andre Hyland, Virginia Newcomb, Sarah Baker, Jess Weixler, Poppy Cunningham and Roy Wood Jr.SYNOPSIS:Two friends scramble to hide the truth from their families and the authorities after a raucous night together leads to the hospitalisation of their fellow band member, Dick Long.Zeke […]

Good Omens Season 1 Finale Review – ‘The Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives’

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Martin Carr reviews the season 1 finale of Good Omens…Cloven hoofed wreckers of military might, quartets of apocalyptic fury and bath tubs of blessed water all figure in this figurative finale to Good Omens. Simultaneously divine and hellishly pleasurable, it carries as much emotional heft as it does delicate moments of character reconciliation. A rare […]

Movie Review – Brightburn (2019)

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Brightburn, 2019.Directed by David Yarovesky. Starring Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner.SYNOPSIS:When a child from another world named Brandon Breyer suddenly makes a crash landing on Earth, where a family takes him in and raises him. But darkness awaits as he begins to show signs of superpowers and instead […]

Movie Review – Dirty God (2019)

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Dirty God, 2019.Directed by Sacha Polak. Starring Vicky Knight, Bluey Robinson, Rebecca Stone, Katherine Kelly, Dana Marineci and Eliza Brady-Girard.SYNOPSIS:A young woman tries to rebuild her life in the aftermath of an acid attack that left her horribly scarred.The prevalence of acid attacks in the UK – London has been called “the acid attack capital […]

Sundance London 2019 Review – After the Wedding

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After the Wedding, 2019.Directed by Bart Freundlich Starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Abby Quinn and Will Chase.SYNOPSIS:When a woman is invited to New York to meet with a company offering to sponsor the orphanage she runs in India, she is forced to confront decisions she made 20 years ago, and the secrets that […]