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Movie Review – Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (2019)

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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist, 2019. Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Starring William Friedkin. SYNOPSIS: A journey through the creation and legacy of The Exorcist, straight from the horse’s mouth. There aren’t many horror movies which have been as thoroughly analysed and dissected as The Exorcist. William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece has been […]

Movie Review – A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)

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A Christmas Gift from Bob, 2020. Directed by Charles Martin Smith. Starring Luke Treadaway, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Phaldut Sharma, Stefan Race, Celyn Jones, Tim Plester, Pepter Lunkuse, Anna Wilson-Jones, Daisy Badger, Nina Wadia and Bob the Cat. SYNOPSIS: James reminisces about a difficult Christmas, involving financial hardship and a struggle with overzealous animal welfare officials who […]

Movie Review – Proxima (2019)

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Proxima, 2019. Directed by Alice Winocour. Starring Eva Green, Zélie Boulant-Lemesle, Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger and Sandra Hüller. SYNOPSIS: A French astronaut prepares for the difficult moment when she must leave her daughter behind in order to blast off into space. Movies about astronauts are very often more about the things tying them to the […]

Movie Review – The Three Kings (2020)

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The Three Kings, 2020. Directed by Jonny Owen. Featuring Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Jock Stein. SYNOPSIS: The story of three men who helped to shape modern football. British football fans love to get misty-eyed about the past. Sometimes it’s about the 1966 World Cup winners, or the period in the late 1970s when the […]

Movie Review – Eighteam (2014)

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Eighteam, 2014. Directed by Juan Rodriguez-Briso. Starring Kalusha Bwalya, Dennis Liwewe, Christopher Katongo, Ciro Ferrara, Mauro Tassotti and Hervé Renard. SYNOPSIS: The against-the-odds story of how Zambia rebuilt its national football team after an air disaster led to the death of almost their entire squad in 1993. Football loves an underdog story. And it’s difficult […]

Movie Review – Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, 2020. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho. Starring Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Lee Re, Lee Ye-won, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan, Kwon Hae-hyo and Kim Kyu-baek. SYNOPSIS: Four years after the initial zombie outbreak, a military man heads back into quarantined South Korea in search of a van full of cash. The zombie […]

Movie Review – Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018)

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Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, 2018. Directed by David Amito and Michael Laicini. Starring Nicole Tompkins, Rowan Smyth, Dan Istrate and Circus-Szalewski. SYNOPSIS: This mockumentary tells the story of a 1970s horror movie uncovered after decades of notoriety, following a series of mysterious deaths. Overblown stories about movies being “cursed” are always entertaining. The […]

Exclusive Interview – Writer-star Antonia Campbell-Hughes on Cordelia and why people thought it was a period drama

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Tom Beasley chats to Antonia Campbell-Hughes, co-writer and star of the strange, London-set paranoid thriller Cordelia… It’s fair to say that Cordelia is not an easy movie to discuss. Set in London and dealing with a woman reeling from trauma in the wake of the 7/7 bombings, it’s a paranoid thriller in the grand tradition […]

Movie Review – After Love (2020)

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After Love, 2020. Directed by Aleem Khan. Starring Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss and Nasser Memarzia. SYNOPSIS: After the death of her husband, a woman travels across the English Channel to find the woman with whom he was having an affair. Joanna Scanlan is one of the most underrated and versatile actors in Britain. […]