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Festivals

A Silence – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Reliable Belgian director Joachim Lafosse serves up more lurid scandal sheet fodder in this dismal tale of a wife and mother trying to sweep her husband’s vile transgressions under the rug.
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Hollywood’s enduring fear of Artificial Intelligence shows no signs of letting up

by Victoria Luxford

As Gareth Edwards’ The Creator storms into cinemas, we trace the film industry’s obsession with the idea that a robot uprising looms on the horizon.
Three suited men, one older with glasses, sitting in the back of a car.
Festivals

Ex-Husbands – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Amiable American comedy of dented male egos in which Griffin Dunne’s recent divorcee accidentally crashes his son’s bachelor party.
Cosy domestic scene with a person lying on a sofa in a living room with bookshelves and potted plants.
Festivals

MMXX – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The latest from Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu comprises four salty slices of pandemic-era life which range from the outwardly comic to the overtly grizzly.
Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Dumb Money + Craig Gillespie | Strange Way Of Life | Brokeback Mountain (2005)

On Truth & Movies this week, we take a look at stranger-than-fiction tale of Reddit vs Wall Street in Dumb Money and spoke to it’s director Craig Gillespie. We also review Pedro Almodovar’s highly anticipated short film Strange Way Of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal former lovers in the wild west. And for film club it is more cowboys and forbidden love in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.
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Review

Expend4bles review – the living end

by David Jenkins

Surreally awful action spectacle which represents nothing more than the quickest route to a payday for everyone involved in its sorry creation.

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Review

R.M.N review – effortless brilliance

by David Jenkins

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns with a superb social realist western with its finger on the erratic pulse of Europe.

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In Praise Of

The enduring joy of Dick Cavett’s Old Hollywood interviews

by Sarah Cleary

Stars including Katherine Hepburn and Gloria Swanson appeared on Dick Cavett’s seminal American talk show – a reminder that the televised interview is something of a lost art.
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Review

Dumb Money review – mildly entertaining economics 101

by Hannah Strong

Craig Gillespie offers a look at the 2021 GameStop stock battle between Wall Street and Reddit, but this comedy is a little light on laughs.

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In Praise Of

How Saving Private Ryan changed the war movie

by Sam Moore

Twenty-five years on, Steven Spielberg’s World War Two epic completely revolutionised the way Hollywood thought about depicting conflict on screen.