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Why I Love...

Why I love a Seaside Weepie

by Lee Penfold

This subgenre of British film makes use of the many coastal beach towns around the UK – but often contrasts holidays and relaxing with characters experiencing some sort of crisis.
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Review

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem review – Turtle Power is alive and well

by Kambole Campbell

The pizza-loving, wisecracking anthropomorphic reptiles receive a substantial facelift in this charming animated outing, which embraces their adolescent spirit.

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This Just In

A first-hand account of Oppenheimer and Barbie’s censorship in Pakistan

by Adil Rahim Hyder

Social media has been fascinated by reports of a strange CGI addition in Oppenheimer for certain conservative countries – our writer reports on the reality of Barbenheimer in a country where cinema is subject to heavy government scrutiny.
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This Just In

The past proves that Hollywood’s unions are powerful – and that striking works

by Jessica White

As tensions mount between the WGA, SAG-AFTRA and the ATFP, it’s worth looking to past examples for proof that Tinseltown’s unions have changed the industry for the better.
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Review

Talk to Me review – visually and emotionally brutal horror

by Katherine McLaughlin

YouTube duo Michael and Danny Philippou make the ambitious leap to feature filmmaking with a thoroughly disturbing, uncompromising horror.

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Club LWLies Exclusive

The complicated legacy of heavy metal in cinema

by Sarah Cleary

Metal is often given short shrift at the movies, but a handful of great auteurs have used the genre and its subculture to brilliant effect.
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Celebrating the sartorial cinematic legacy of Jane Birkin

by Elif Türkan Erisik

A star so stylish she had an Hermès bag named after her, Jane Birkin’s effortless on and off-screen elegance has never been matched.
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Review

You Hurt My Feelings review – slight but charming marital comedy

by Hannah Strong

Nicole Holofcener reteams with Julia Louis-Dreyfus for a gentle comedy about a writer who discovers her husband doesn’t like her work.

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Festivals

Marseille Film Festival explores cinema as a medium of escape

by Kitty Grady

A world away from the glitz and glamour of Cannes, another French coastal city aims to build a more inclusive and challenging vision of a film festival.
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Review

Oppenheimer review – Cillian Murphy’s finest hour

by David Jenkins

This combustible and relentlessly-paced biography of the ​“father of the the atomic bomb” is a contender for Christopher Nolan’s best film.

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