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Review

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

by David Jenkins

Occa­sion­al­ly inter­est­ing, over­ly glossy pro­file doc on the fierce­ly inde­pen­dent and out­spo­ken Pogues frontman.

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Review

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

by Hannah Strong

The Har­ry Pot­ter spin-off fran­chise con­tin­ues with Eddie Redmayne’s mag­i­cal zool­o­gist get­ting caught up in a poten­tial race war.

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Review

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge

by Adam Woodward

The fifth instal­ment in Disney’s swash­buck­ling fran­chise is scup­pered by a cer­tain Mr Depp.

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Review

Alice Through the Looking Glass

by Anton Bitel

There’s charm, humour and no short­age of strange­ness in this rad­i­cal rewrit­ing of Lewis Carroll’s clas­sic tale.

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Review

Black Mass

by Vadim Rizov

Despite John­ny Depp’s best efforts, this by the num­bers gang­ster biopic doesn’t do its sto­ry justice.

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Review

Dark Shadows

by David Jenkins

Despite obvi­ous flaws, there’s a decent amount to admire in Tim Burton’s bizarre retro hor­ror comedy.

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Review

Alice in Wonderland

by Anton Bitel

Tim Bur­ton has always been a visu­al sto­ry­teller and his Alice is a source of visu­al wonder.

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