The Guardian » 1 week ago
The ongoing devastation has impacted this year’s awards season, raising questions over the Oscars and GrammysThe California wildfires have to date killed at least 25 people, destr...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Director of enjoyably twisted films including Life After Beth, The Little Hours and Spin Me RoundOne of the few actor/director couples in the US independent film scene, Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena were never keen to discuss their personal lives in detail, but their relati...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Combined star power only takes this overfamiliar caper so far, let down by an unfunny script and a lack of originalityThe last time we saw Cameron Diaz on screen, it was way back in 2014. The...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Steven Spielberg, Naomi Watts, Nicolas Cage, Kyle MacLachlan and others share their respects for film-maker who died this week at 78...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Nam Arum’s debut documentary weaves intimate home videos and family stories into an interrogation of the aftermath of Chun Doo-hwan’s dictatorshipThe personal and the political collide in Nam Arum’s astonishingly assured debut, an astute chronicle of South Korean politics...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Genre films typically only get the technical gongs, but critical smashes such as Dune: Part Two, Wicked and The Substance could make ‘prestige’ category wins a reality this yearAh, the Oscars. That perennial exercise in Hollywood patting itself on the back with all the su...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Seemingly inspired by the Rotherham child rape scandal, Nathan Shepka’s film has both a streak of sentimentality and an appetite for violenceHere is a vigilante thriller co-directed, written by and starring prolific low-budget Scottish film-maker Nathan Shepka, which has ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
When a demobbed British marine goes after his daughter’s killers, his old comrades pile in to beef up the relentless gunfightsThis is a boorish, blokey film, the cinematic equivalent of a man sitting on the tube with his legs spread wide apart. It’s a violent British reve...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The next entry in our series of writers recommending their favourite comfort films is a tribute to Jonathan Demme’s zesty gangster comedyThere’s no more perfect song to open a movie than Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. It’s a deli...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
This tale of nice ordinary folk doing bad things is a cartoonishly grisly comedy with a hint of Fargo, though without the off-kilter humourThe family that eats together stays together, they say. But the proverb will have to be tweaked for director Caden Douglas’s cartooni...
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