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Review

Opus review – off-key pop industry satire misses all its cues

by David Jenkins

John Malkovich is an electro pop god with an axe to grind in this glossy music industry horror-satire by debut director Mark Anthony Green

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Podcast

Black Bag + Cate Blanchett & Steven Soderbergh | Opus | Thessaloniki Film Festival | Under The Silver Lake (2018)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss the taut thriller Black Bag and spoke to its star Cate Blanchett and director Steven Soderbergh. We also review A24’s latest horror movie Opus, hear the latest from the Thessaloniki Film Festival and finally, for film club, revisit the surrealist neo-noir Under The Silver Lake.
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Review

Sister Midnight review – a droll, strange, cool freak of a film

by Anton Bitel

Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight.

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In Praise Of

Remembering Souleymane Cissé: An Uncompromising Pioneer of African Cinema

by Nadira Begum

A trailblazer on the global cinema stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souleymane Cissé’s cinema of imagination changed the world.
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Review

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found review – a vital piece of cine-portraiture

by Lucy Peters

Filmmaker Raoul Peck unearths the searing social realist photographs of an artist whose work was thought to be lost.

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Review

On Falling review – Solidly-made slice of Loachian miserablism

by David Jenkins

The dire lot of a low-paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.

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This Just In

Severed, Reprinted, Impersonated: The Rise of Cinema’s ‘Work Double’

by Gayle Sequeira

A spate of recent works are pondering the concept of replicating or separating oneself in response to our increasingly economically perilous world.
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Podcast

Mickey 17 | On Falling | The Rover (2014)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss the return of Bong Joon Ho with Mickey 17. We also review On Falling and, for Film Club watched brutal Australian neo-western The Rover
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Review

Marching Powder review – a proper, proper gaffe

by Adam Woodward

Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back with yet another boorish, small-minded take on the football hooligan genre.

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Not Movies

What on Earth is The Show About the Show?

by Daniel Glassman

Caveh Zahedi counts Greta Gerwig and the Safdie Brothers among his admirers – but where do you begin with a beast as strange and sprawling as his all-consuming magnum opus?