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Inside the fight to make Audio Description a non-negotiable part of the film industry

by Emma Cieslik

A crucial tool for visually impaired cinema lovers yet often undervalued by the industry, it’s about time that audio description’s worth is heard.
Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Anora | Heretic + Scott Beck and Bryan Woods | Pretty Woman (1990)

On Truth & Movies this week we commence with Palme d’Or winner Anora. We then review Hugh Grant’s twisted turn in Heretic and spoke to its directors Bryan Woods and Scott Beck. Finally, for film club, we revisit Garry Marshall’s Pretty Woman.
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Festivals

Teki Cometh – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

An elderly man plans the final year of his life in Daihachi Yoshida’s impressive adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel.
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Festivals

Route 29 – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A standoffish young woman embarks on a road trip with an unusual 12-year-old girl in Yusuke Morii’s offbeat sophomore feature.
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Review

Juror #2 review – one of Clint Eastwood’s finest late-era films

by David Jenkins

Clint Eastwood’s 40th film offers a morally complex riff on the tried-and-tested courtroom drama which culminates in a killer final shot.

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Festivals

11 Rebels – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Kazuya Shiraishi polishes off a 60-year-old script for this bloodthirsty samurai epic about a band of criminals recruited to defend a castle from the emperor’s army during the Boshin War.
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Review

Anora review – an amazing, hypermodern concept for a film

by David Jenkins

A young sex worker thinks she’s hit the jackpot when she falls for a Russian nepo baby, but his parents have other plans in Sean Baker’s anti-rom-com.

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In Retrospect
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Can watching porn in public change perceptions of sex work?

by Billie Walker

Erika Lust’s C*m With Me tour celebrates 20 years of the filmmaker’s work, but how can welcoming porn back into cinemas challenge audience attitudes?
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In Praise Of

In praise of Stan Brakhage’s most disturbing film document

by Tyler Thier

This Halloween, no body horror fiction can compare to the haunting revelations of Brakhage’s 32-minute film The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes.
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Review

Heretic review – Hugh Grant is a horror natural

by Leila Latif

Two Mormon missionaries get more than they bargained for when they drop in on Hugh Grant in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ effective psychological horror.

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