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In Praise Of

Sadness with Pizzazz: The Saddest Music in the World at 20

by Theo Rollason

Two decades after its release, Guy Maddin’s eccentric Prohibition era satire speaks to a contemporary obsession with corporatising pain.
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Review

Doctor Jekyll review – gives Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing a run for their money

by Lillian Crawford

Hammer Horror returns with a genderflipped take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novel, starring Eddie Izzard as a leading figure of the pharmaceutical industry with a dark secret.

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Why contemporary filmmakers can’t stop copying Jacques Demy

by Oisín McGilloway

From La La Land to Past Lives, filmmakers are still drawing inspiration from the vivid emotional worlds of Jacques Demy. What is it about his films that continues to inspire directors?
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Review

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed review – gossipy, entertaining look at a mythological man

by Patrick Sproull

Stephen Kijak speaks to Rock Hudson’s friends and lovers to build a loving – but perhaps a little one-note – portrait of a Hollywood star.

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What's On

Put on your red shoes and dance: the enduring euphoria of Powell & Pressburger

by Lillian Crawford

A new season organised by the BFI in partnership with Thelma Schoonmaker brings many classic Powell & Pressburger films – including new restorations – to the big screen once more.
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Review

Foe review – bewitching and terrifyingly plausible

by Leila Latif

Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre star in Garth Davies’ unnerving sci-fi drama, based on Iain Reid’s novel about a couple’s disturbed existence in an America ravaged by climate change.

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Interviews

Martin Scorsese: ‘What is it about us as human beings that allows for us to be so compartmentalised?’

by Christina Newland

Speaking at the global press conference for Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese provides insights into his research process and use of music, as well as discovering Lily Gladstone via Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women.
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Review

Trolls Band Together – NSYNC fandom rise up!

by David Jenkins

The very-belated reformation of US boyband NSYNC is the central hook for this day-glo second sequel to the surprisingly beloved Trolls franchise.

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A brief history of America according to Martin Scorsese

by Paul Risker

Across seven decades, Martin Scorsese has been constructing his own vision of the United States’ bloodstained mythology.
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Not Movies

The Curse is Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s unsettling suburban house of mirrors

by Charles Bramesco

Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone star as an unscrupulous property developing couple who find themselves cursed by a small child in this A24 and Showtime collaboration.