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Pete Postlethwaite’s Leaps of Faith
“The truth is, I thought it mattered,” remarks Pete Postlethwaite’s Danny Ormondroyd, impassioned to give a rousing defence of his community in…
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Shoot The People review – a powerful tribute to…
To “shoot the people“ means not only to capture them, but to bear witness, and to use the camera as…
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Summertime Solitude: The Green Ray at 40
“It will be ‘green,’ but a most wonderful green, a green which no artist could ever obtain on his palette, a green which…
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Rosebush Pruning review – a dark-hearted,…
Forget roses – we need to talk about violets of the shrinking variety, especially in reference to those who caught…
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Birds of War review – boundary-breaking love story
What does it look like to build a life with someone you’ve never actually been in the same room as? Birds of…
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Radical Film School and the Political Cinema of…
As a Palestinian filmmaker, Farouky has first-handedly experienced the fickle franchising of radical aesthetics from national platforms. He has previously been…
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Making A Splash: Remembering Hockney Onscreen
It seems oddly fitting that David Hockney’s death should coincide with a heatwave. After all, nobody can evoke the languorous feeling…
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Supergirl review – a mid-field superhero affair
For generations, Superman has been the poster boy of polished, all-American heroism. He meets his antithesis in Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl,…
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Nino review – fails to pull its punches
While at the GP collecting some routine test results, Nino (Théodore Pellerin) is suddenly asked if he has his cancer-care…
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Porous Encounters: A Queer East Correspondence
This is the second of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together…
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