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Review

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point review – a lo-fi holiday classic in the making

by Hannah Strong

A large Italian-American family gather for the holidays in Tyler Taormina’s freewheeling festive feature.

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Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Gladiator II + Connie Nielsen | Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point | Gladiator (2000)

On Truth & Movies this week we commence with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II and spoke to it’s star Connie Nielsen. We then also review the holiday comedy Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point and, for Film Club, revisit Gladiator
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The transportive beauty of modern magical realism

by Nadia Maria Oliva

In two of 2024’s best films – Bird and On Becoming A Guinea Fowl – reality blurs with fantasy when the world becomes too cruel to stand.
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Not Movies

When did theatre become so reliant on film?

by Holly Williams

With screen-to-stage adaptations popping up in the West End every week, what’s caused the theatre world to rely so heavily on cinema for source material?
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Acting Up

The engrossing ’90s nonsense of Denzel Washington

by Chloe Walker

One of the greatest actors of all time found a compelling niche starring in some of the decade’s zaniest high-concept thrillers.
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Festivals

Greek Cinema Now: A Postcard from the Thessaloniki Film Festival

by Rafa Sales Ross

While the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari have gone travelling the world, what’s going down on the Greek home front?
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Review

Gladiator II review – are you not entertained?!

by Hannah Strong

Paul Mescal picks up the mantel as the avenging angel of Rome in Ridley Scott’s long-awaited but lacklustre sequel.

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Festivals

Taking stock of Japanese cinema at Tokyo International Film Festival

by Hannah Strong

The biggest celebration of cinema in Japan shows promise as an event in the city’s cultural calendar.
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Review

The Piano Lesson review – high-quality but low-impact work

by Leila Latif

Malcolm Washington makes his feature directorial debut with an ambitious adaptation of one of August Wilson’s most well-known plays.

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Review

No Other Land review – a microcosm of Palestinian resistance

by Fatima Sheriff

Calling for a free Palestine, this vital doc chronicles the resilience of the Masafer Yatta community and the occupation’s atrocities in the West Bank.

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