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Interviews

Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Is our modern pain valid?’

by Darren Richman

The actor and writer/​director of A Real Pain dis­cuss­es his Pol­ish her­itage and the tricky prospect of film­ing scenes for a com­e­dy dra­ma in a con­cen­tra­tion camp.
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Review

A Real Pain review – an amusing and compelling inquiry into human pain and suffering

by Katherine McLaughlin

Based on a trip he took to Poland with his own cousin, Jesse Eisen­berg crafts a sen­si­tive dram­e­dy co-star­ring Kier­an Culkin.

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Festivals

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

by Erin Mussett

Jesse Eisen­berg, Mal­colm Wash­ing­ton and Christo­pher Andrews explored the diverg­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of gen­er­a­tional trau­ma at this year’s Lon­don Film Festival.
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Review

Sasquatch Sunset – Gross-out larks with an anthropological twist

by David Jenkins

A fam­i­ly of myth­i­cal beasts are observed in their nat­ur­al habi­tat in com­ic por­trait of ani­mals and their instincts.

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Festivals

Manodrome – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Jesse Eisen­berg breaks his dwee­by type­cast as a dis­en­chant­ed body­builder lured into to a men’s rights group in John Trengove’s intrigu­ing thriller.
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Festivals

When You Finish Saving the World – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Jesse Eisen­berg makes his direc­to­r­i­al debut with an adap­ta­tion of his own high­ly-praised pod­cast drama.
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Review

Vivarium

by Max Copeman

Imo­gen Poots and Jesse Eisen­berg become trapped in a sub­ur­ban night­mare in this metaphor-laden domes­tic horror.

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Review

Zombieland: Double Tap

by David Jenkins

A tire­some fol­ly that rejoins us with the char­ac­ters of a mild­ly suc­cess­ful 2009 hor­ror-com­e­dy which absolute­ly no-one remembers.

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Incoming

Zombieland returns from the dead with Double Tap trailer

by Charles Bramesco

Jesse Eisen­berg, Woody Har­rel­son, Emma Stone and Abi­gail Bres­lin are back in this hor­ror com­e­dy sequel.
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Review

The Hummingbird Project

by Thomas Hobbs

The thrill-a-minute world of fibre-optic cable lay­ing back­drops this uneven tale of human­i­ty ver­sus capitalism.

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