Contributor Ashley Clark

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Long Read

A Fiennes Mess – Why the casting of a new Michael Jackson TV show has ruffled feathers

by Ashley Clark

The news that Joseph Fiennes, a white British actor, will play the King of Pop is as perplexing as it is insulting.
Trailers

Watch the new trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse

by Ashley Clark

It’s the end of the world as we know, unless those plucky mutant heroes can save the day once more...
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Review

Creed

by Ashley Clark

A franchise is reborn in sensational fashion courtesy of director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B Jordan.

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Anticipation
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4
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Review

Steve Jobs

by Ashley Clark

This triple-pronged character study of the Apple godhead is bogged down in reams of self-satisfied Sorkinese.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Second Coming

by Ashley Clark

An extremely intriguing and morally ambiguous south London psychodrama from Debbie Tucker Green.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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An interview with Cop and a Half’s Norman D Golden II

by Ashley Clark

A random exchange helped us to catch up with the star of 1993’s underrated cross-generational buddy comedy.
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Review

12 Years a Slave

by Ashley Clark

One of Britain’s greatest living filmmakers offers an outraged, intense and artful examination of American slavery.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
4
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Review

Blackfish

by Ashley Clark

When Orcas attack! Gabriela Cowperthwaite reveals the seamy underside of family water parks.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
3
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Review

No

by Ashley Clark

Gael García Bernal takes down a dictator with glossy TV advertising in this brilliant Chilean satire.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
4
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Review

Margaret

by Ashley Clark

Anna Paquin is on career-best form in this important post-9/11 movie with its own troubled mythology.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Thing

by Ashley Clark

While the characterisation is thin and delivered in broad strokes, by the time havoc breaks loose it’s unlikely you’ll care too much.

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3
In Retrospect

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