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Review

Passages review – a tantalising romantic car-crash

by David Jenkins

Ira Sachs returns with an intimate, intense three-hander about a Fassbinder-like film director played by the great Franz Rogowski.

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The long, complex evolution of the blockbuster

by Paul Risker

Nearly 50 years since Jaws changed the shape of cinema, the term ​‘blockbuster’ has come a long way – but not always for the better.
Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Talk To Me | You Hurt My Feelings + Nicole Holofcener | Walking and Talking (1996)

On Truth & Movies this week, there are terrified teens doing anything for social media clout in gnarly horror flick Talk To Me. We also spoke to Nicole Holofcener about her new film You Hurt My Feelings and reviewed the delightful comedy. Then for Film Club it was more Holofcener, with her earliest film Walking and Talking.
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Interviews

Louis Garrel: ‘When you make an action scene, there’s this tendency to think, “Let’s do it like Heat or Scarface”’

by Elena Lazic

The French star discusses The Innocent, his fourth feature film as a director and a quintessentially French hybrid of romantic comedy and heist thriller.
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The double-edged sword of technology in Scrapper and Past Lives

by Clotilde Chinnici

Charlotte Regan and Celine Song’s debut features represent the conflicting attitudes towards the prominent role technology takes in modern life.
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Review

Theater Camp review – slightly cliquey thesp fest

by Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman direct this lighthearted mockumentary about a struggling theater camp, but its insider humour might only work for am-dram enthusiasts.

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Interviews

Harris Dickinson: ‘It was actually quite scary improvising with Lola’

by Hannah Strong

The Scrapper star on getting into character, upsetting the make-up department and improvising opposite a tenacious 11-year-old.
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Review

Scrapper review – a charming, effervescent story about grief

by Hannah Strong

The chemistry between Harris Dickinson and Lola Campbell shines in Charlotte Regan’s debut, about the difficulties of father-daughter bonding.

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Review

Afire review – Petzold taps into his inner Rohmer

by Marina Ashioti

Christian Petzold returns with something lighter, funnier and more instantly-lovable than his recent run, bringing regular leading lady Paula Beer along for the ride.

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Review

The Blackening review – a novel take on the horror parody

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

A group of friends head for a cabin in the woods only to face off with a killer in this fresh horror spoof, from the writer of Girls Trip.

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