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History Chasing Its Tail: On Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy
As Lebanon faces attacks from Israel, Jocelyne Saab's films take on a renewed sense of urgency and sadness. “The June 1967 defeat was tantamo…
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a stylish, satisfying sequel
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and co. return for a legacy sequel that's not just nostalgia in a new frock. In the intervening 20 years between …
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Hokum review – pure poppycock
Adam Scott stars as a curmudgeonly author adrift in a haunted Irish hotel in Damian McCarthy's unoriginal horror. A recent assumption about m…
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The Sheep Detectives review – cosy doesn’t cover it
The hot new gumshoes on the block are CGI sheep in Kyle Balda’s amiable comedy about the murder of a beloved shepherd. Cosy crime gets a CGI spit…
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Rose of Nevada | Mother Mary | Vox Lux (2018)
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. For Film Club, we revisit Brady Corbet’s …
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Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching
David Lowery's chamber piece about a pop star and her erstwhile costume designer is a strange, haunting affair. Hauntings have been a presenc…
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Exit 8 review – one of the better translations of video game mechanics to cinema
A popular 2023 video game receives a big screen transformation thanks to filmmaker Genki Kawamura. Although the settings and specific genre trapp…
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