Song Sung Blue
This was one of the more surprising hits of recent months. Based on a true story, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play a couple who in the 1990s formed a…
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Is This Thing On
This American comedy-drama was one of the hits of the Leeds International Film Festival last year, and it has an interesting back-story. Writer and Director Bradley Cooper (Maestro; A Star…
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Sentimental Value
Writer and director Joachim Trier was rightly lauded for his highly acclaimed The Worst Person in the World in 2021, and he has followed this up with Sentimental Value -…
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Licorice Pizza
The film itself is fast moving, beautifully scripted, surprising and joyous, focusing on the burgeoning but rocky relationship between a precocious Hoffman and the older Haim, set in Southern California…
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Belfast
Whilst sectarian violence is a key theme in Belfast, it is not the overwhelming one. Rather, the film focuses on the need for normality and family in what is a…
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Petite Maman
Peter Bradshaw gave it a five star review in the Guardian: “Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale reverie is occasioned by the dual mysteries of memory and the future: simple, elegant and…
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Ali & Ava
In his four star Guardian review, Paul Bradshaw wrote: “There’s a tremendous human warmth to this love story from writer-director Clio Barnard, a social-realist tale that you might compare to…
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Guardian gave it a four star review: “The heart of The Peanut Butter Falcon beats to a rhythm that harks back to the ragged romanticism of a Huck…