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Review

Call Jane

by Leila Latif

Chicago’s Underground Abortion Network and a housewife’s unwanted pregnancy lie at the centre of Phyllis Nagy’s directorial debut.

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In Retrospect
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Home Ents

30 years on, Ghostwatch is still as haunting as ever

by Anton Bitel

The BBC pulled off an ingenious prank with their 1992 paranormal investigation, which has proven an inspiration for the found footage boom.
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Review

Living

by Ella Kemp

Oliver Hermanus teams up with Kazuo Ishiguro and Bill Nighy for a British reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece, Ikiru.

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In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

Why I love Angela Lansbury’s performance in The Manchurian Candidate

by Johnny Restall

Lansbury sparkles as the machiavellian Eleanor Iselin in John Frankenheimer’s classic political neo-noir.
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Incoming

Live your Wes Anderson-inspired fantasy at an east London hotel

by Hannah Strong

A pop-up at One Hundred Shoreditch celebrates the world of Accidentally Wes Anderson with a very special hotel room and immersive exhibition.
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Incoming

Remembering Jules Bass, stop-motion pioneer and creator of Christmas wonder

by Charles Bramesco

Deceased at 87, he and partner Arthur Rankin reigned as kings over midcentury Yuletide nostalgia.
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Review

Bros

by Hannah Strong

Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller’s gay rom-com isn’t as groundbreaking or as romantic as it likes to think it is.

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Festivals

Struggling fathers take the spotlight at this year’s BFI London Film Festival

by Zahra AlHadad

A trio of dramas explain the relationship between fathers and children put an emphasis on parental personhood at this year’s London Film Festival.
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Interviews

Chris Butler on ParaNorman: ‘We wanted it to feel like a rollercoaster’

by Callie Petch

The co-director of the weird and wonderful stop motion modern classic ParaNorman reflects on the film’s legacy a decade later.
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House on Bare Mountain – the softcore flick that reunited the Universal monsters

by Sean McGeady

60 years since its release, this strange quasi-monster flick is a reminder of cinema before the IP wars began in earnest.