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Review

Being the Ricardos

by Leila Latif

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem play TV legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin’s snappy biopic.

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Composer X LWLies

What is the greatest film score of all time?

by Sean Wilson

Composer Magazine takes a look at the elements which earn a film score a place in the history books.
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Incoming

George MacKay staves off World War Two in the Munich: The Edge of War trailer

by Charles Bramesco

The latter portrays Neville Chamberlain in this dramatisation of the 1938 Nazi appeasement in Munich.
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Home Ents

Discover the film that helped kickstart the found footage phenomenon

by Anton Bitel

Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler’s 1998 horror mockumentary The Last Broadcast predates The Blair Witch Project.
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How witchploitation cinema cast its spell on the counter-culture

by Adam Scovell

In the 1960s and ​’70s, a spate of low-rent exploitation films tapped sorcery and the occult for cheap, sleazy thrills.
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Review

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

by Emma Fraser

This intimate documentary sees the trailblazing Hollywood icon tell her remarkable story in her own words.

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Review

Encounter

by Hannah Strong

Despite some compelling performances, Michael Pearce’s sci-fi thriller fails to live up to the promise of his debut, Beast.

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Review

West Side Story

by David Jenkins

Steven Spielberg comes a‑cropper in this stiff and soulless revamp of the classic Leonard Bernstein barnstormer.

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Interviews

Ari Wegner on how she created The Power of the Dog’s visual identity

by Hannah Strong

The cinematographer reveals the trick to shooting digital cows, and why the film is really a monster movie.
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Review

Blue Bayou

by Hannah Strong

Justin Chon’s melodramatic tale of immigration and injustice in present-day America is undermined by a clichéd script.

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