Contributions from Henry Heffer | Little White Lies

Contributor Henry Heffer

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Does your taste in film betray your position on Brexit?

by Henry Heffer

Some of your favourite movies may hold clues about your true feel­ings on the UK EU referendum.
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Review

A Hologram for the King

by Henry Heffer

Tom Han­ks plays a genial holo­gram sales­man(!) who packs off to Sau­di Ara­bia for a voy­age of per­son­al discovery.

3
Anticipation
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Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Cabin Fever

by Henry Heffer

Unless you’re an Eli Roth com­pletist, avoid this remake of the 2002 par­a­sitic hor­ror like the plague.

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2
In Retrospect
Trailers

Watch the pulsating first trailer for The Accountant

by Henry Heffer

Ben Affleck plays the num­bers game in this Bourne-esque thriller from direc­tor Gavin O’Connor.
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Review

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

by Henry Heffer

Tina Fey brings some light com­ic relief to the Afghanistan con­flict in this cut­ting media commentary.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Incoming

Everything we know about Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

by Henry Heffer

Kris­ten Stew­art and Gar­rett Hed­lund team up for the director’s lat­est lit­er­ary adaption.
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In Praise Of

Is this Will Smith’s greatest performance?

by Henry Heffer

We wend our way back to 1993 to heap praise on Fred Schepisi’s Six Degrees of Separation.
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Review

Truman

by Henry Heffer

The great Ricar­do Darin plays a man fac­ing death – but what will become of his trusty mutt?

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Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Eight surprising depictions of the President of the United States

by Henry Heffer

Will Ferrell’s cast­ing as Ronald Rea­gan got us think­ing of oth­er mem­o­rable POTUS por­tray­als in the movies.
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Would you eat at any of these movie themed restaurants?

by Henry Heffer

A new Star Wars din­ner has inspired us branch out into the lucra­tive world of nov­el­ty food joints.
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Review

God’s Not Dead 2

by Henry Heffer

Melis­sa Joan Hart and Jesse Met­calfe fly the flag for the Big Guy in this baf­fling piece of Chris­t­ian pamphleteering.

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Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
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In Retrospect