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Review

Little Richard: I Am Everything

by David Jenkins

The ​“Quasar of Rock” is the subject of this juicy and insightful documentary which prizes deep cultural analysis over the usual bobbysoxer hysteria.

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Review

Love According to Dalva

by Alexandria Slater

Belgian filmmaker Emmanuelle Nicot approaches the subject of child sexual abuse with great sensitivity in her debut feature.

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Interviews

Nida Manzoor: ‘As South Asian women, we don’t get to rage’

by Soma Ghosh

The writer-director behind the furious, hilarious Polite Society explains how her teenage years inspired her to create a coming-of-age action-comedy for the ages.
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The remarkable story of 1983’s Battle of the Bonds

by Mark Allison

Forty years ago, Roger Moore and Sean Connery duked it out at the box office as Octopussy and Never Say Never Again faced off on the big screen.
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Review

Polite Society

by Fatima Sheriff

Following the blast of sitcom joy that was We Are Lady Parts, Nida Manzoor takes a giant leap to the big screen with an in-your-face comedy about crane-kicking the face of traditional mores.

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Opinion

Cage is all the rage – but his recent projects are selling him short

by Rory Doherty

Nicolas Cage is a singular cinematic talent, but lately a string of lacklustre films attempt to capitalise on the pop culture image of him without adding to the conversation.
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In Praise Of

Beyond the Red Scare: Invaders from Mars at 70

by Christopher Stewardson

William Cameron Menzies’ sci-fi classic might have its origins in the Cold War, but its message is more expansive.
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Review

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

An elderly man begins a remarkable journey after discovering that a former colleague has terminal cancer in Hettie Macdonald’s adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s best-selling novel.

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Home Ents

Discover the Japanese locomotive thriller that inspired Speed

by Anton Bitel

Junya Sato’s classic action-crime film depicts a group of disenfranchised men who attempt to pull of an audacious crime involving a speeding train.
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Interviews

Takehide Hori: ‘Everything started from my misunderstanding’

by Kambole Campbell

The writer, director, set designer, puppet builder, animator, composer and actor behind the dystopian stop-motion epic Junk Head discusses how he created a film almost single-handedly.