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Incoming: Our Kind of Traitor

While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard), who unbeknownst to them is…

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Incoming: Green Room

Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking…

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Film Review: The Seventh Fire

Life in America has been nothing but consistent for Native Americans (I’m applying the self-identified term used in the film) since the Mayflower landed. From the first colonisers, through the…

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Incoming: Mustang

It’s the beginning of summer. In a small village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school, innocently playing with local boys. But…

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Blu-ray Review: In a Lonely Place (Criterion Collection)

Humphrey Bogart is undoubtedly one of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time. In a period when studios still made vehicles for stars, he was the biggest ticket. Even when…

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DVD Review: Battle for Sevastopol

It’s safe to say that popular history has long been the domain of white men. Whilst we still live in a patriarchal world, things have begun to change over the…

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Incoming: Everybody Wants Some

Set in the world of 1980s college life, Everybody Wants Some follows a freshman’s first weekend of college, experiencing a fraternity-like lifestyle with his hard-partying teammates as they navigate their…

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Incoming: Knight of Cups

Once there was a young prince whose father, the king of the East, sent him down into Egypt to find a pearl. But when the prince arrived, the people poured…

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DVD Review: A War

War is very simple in theory. Actions during conflict are governed by a huge book of rules, regulations and scenarios. All well and good on the training ground but in…

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DVD Review: Hard Tide

Gangsters, drug dealers and growing up in dysfunctional and anti-social families are the staple of low budget British dramas. Sadly, this generally leads to insipid, uninspiring and unoriginal sub-soap opera…

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