Contributions from Ashley Clark | Little White Lies

Contributor Ashley Clark

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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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Review

Steve Jobs

by Ashley Clark

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

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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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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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Review

Blackfish

by Ashley Clark

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

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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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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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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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