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Keeper review – dull horror that stifles all its…

When looking over the output of Osgood Perkins, it’s clear that this is a filmmaker of many ideas, possibly more than

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Alpha review – vibrates with life

“I’m not afraid to die.” The refrain of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ​‘The Mercy Seat’ seems hardcoded into

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The Thing With Feathers review – simplistic…

Gluttons for emotional punishment would do well to seek out Dylan Southern’s The Thing with Feathers, an ickily-stylised screen adaptation of

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The euphoric pleasures of movies and football

I grew up an incredibly anxious child, horribly shy and unable to make many friends beyond my small, established group.

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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t review – new,…

Louis Leterrier’s unlikely 2013 hit, Now You See Me, opens with an instruction: ​“Come closer… Closer… The closer you are the

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Nuremberg review – has all the substance of…

Bearing the name of one of the wealthiest families in American history, James Vanderbilt has covered the gamut of genre

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The Running Man review – brings very little new…

Projecting back to those halcyon days when narrative media about must-win dystopian death sports was satisfyingly scarce. It’s been a long

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Jay Kelly review – the Clooney of it all…

While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom –

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What Night of the Comet Taught Me About the End…

Preset no. two, my local student-run station, is not interested in boundaries, generationally or sonically. The college kids play an

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Predator: Badlands review – a strangely wholesome…

Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles,