
Four new films to stream this weekend
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- January 15, 2021, 05:30
Dear Comrades!, MLK/FBI, One Night in Miami, Stardust

MLK/FBI: The sinister smearing of Martin Luther King by a paranoid FBI
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- January 14, 2021, 05:00
Film review: More than five decades on, Sam Polland’s documentary is alarming

Stardust: David Bowie’s 1971 tour of the US was disastrous. This film about it isn’t much better
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- January 14, 2021, 05:00
Film review: Johnny Flynn’s enigmatic performance anchors this David Bowie movie

Vanessa Kirby: ‘I wanted to feel like I’d lost a limb, like someone was missing’
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- January 9, 2021, 05:30
The London actor plays a woman who loses her baby in the hard-hitting Pieces of a Woman

Four new films to see this weekend
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- January 8, 2021, 06:00
Dramas Pieces of a Woman and Two Ways Home, docs Robin’s Wish and Mother

Mother: Thought-provoking tribute to selfless caregivers
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- January 8, 2021, 05:00
Review: Documentary questions ethics of outsourcing care and economic disparity between Thailand and the West

Pieces of a Woman: If you’re even thinking about getting pregnant, don’t watch this film
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- January 7, 2021, 05:00
Review: Shia LaBeouf and Vanessa Kirby play a Boston couple expecting their first child

The last days of Robin Williams
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- January 4, 2021, 05:00
Robin’s Wish, a new documentary, reveals the true story which led to the actor taking his own life in 2014

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: Hugely engaging and impressive
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- December 31, 2020, 17:31
Review: Pushing the boundaries right up to closing time

Sylvie’s Love: Sumptuous period romance in the spirit of Hollywood’s Golden Age
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- December 31, 2020, 05:00
Review: A loving homage to the lush Technicolor ‘woman’s pictures’ of yesteryear

Robert Rodriguez: ‘I like making movies that empower children’
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- December 26, 2020, 05:00
The director of Spy Kids and We Can Be Heroes on how he turns work into play

After We Collided: Half-digested movie tropes regurgitated by Google Rom-dram
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- December 24, 2020, 05:00
Review: The dialogue often sounds like they are attempting a new cussword record

Soul: A delightful Christmas present from Pixar
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- December 24, 2020, 05:00
Review: A gentle, thoughtful picture with big ideas about personality, life and death

The 25 best films of 2020 – in order
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- December 19, 2020, 06:15
Parasite, Uncut Gems, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Invisible Man and many more

George Clooney: ‘I’d kill for some loneliness right now’
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- December 19, 2020, 05:00
The actor-director on his new film, Covid-19 and why he’s not allowed to ride a motorcycle

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Viola Davis plays the ‘mother of the blues’
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- December 18, 2020, 06:10
Review: Chadwick Boseman’s final film recalls his dazzling James Brown role

Let Him Go: Kevin Costner excels in a gripping neo-western thriller
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- December 17, 2020, 05:00
Review: Costner keeps it earthy but the film is owned by the warring female characters

Essentialism, nihilism and existentalism: Pixar makes a different sort of family film
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- December 12, 2020, 05:00
Pixar’s first film with an African-American protagonist is launching on Christmas Day

The Mole Agent: Who needs James Bond when you have this?
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- December 11, 2020, 05:00
A grieving widower hoping to feel useful again goes undercover at a nursing home

The Irishwoman who wed a Bee Gee: ‘It was like being married to the family’
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- December 8, 2020, 05:00
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, a new film, chronicles the band’s extraordinary career

Meryl Streep and the Prom cast on Ryan Murphy’s LGBTQ Broadway adaptation
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- December 5, 2020, 05:00
James Corden, Andrew Rannells, Keegan-Michael Key, Kerry Washington on inclusivity and representation

Meryl Streep hasn’t had this much fun on screen since The Devil Wears Prada
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- December 4, 2020, 13:00
Review: The Prom, also starring Nicole Kidman, is an old-fashioned toe-tapping feelgood musical

Four new films to see this weekend
- Film
- December 4, 2020, 06:00
Wolfwalkers, Girl from Mogadishu on release, Mank on demand, Crock of Gold on both

Mank review: It’s counterfactual nonsense but it’s spectacular
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- December 4, 2020, 05:30
There’s much to admire in David Fincher’s new Netflix film about Hollywood’s heyday

It’s hard to watch Shane MacGowan in this wheezing, hissing state
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- December 3, 2020, 06:00
Review: Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan is an endurance test for all

Marion Davies was as big as Valentino. Then she had a scandalous affair
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- December 3, 2020, 05:00
Mank, David Fincher’s new film, goes some way to rehabilitating the film star's reputation

Four new films to stream this weekend
- Film
- November 27, 2020, 06:00
Finding Jack Charlton, Possessor, Black Beauty, Train to Busan 2: Peninsula

Possessor: Son of Cronenberg directs one of this year’s most jarring films
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- November 27, 2020, 05:30
Review: Self is a precarious, ill-defined thing in this movie with Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh

Train to Busan 2: Peninsula – A true horror of a movie
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- November 27, 2020, 05:00
Review: Film-maker Sang-ho Yeon brings plenty of panache but this film lacks the emotional weight of its predecessor

‘After I won an Oscar everybody agreed with everything I said’
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- November 23, 2020, 05:00
Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under, on gay characters, toxic sets and new drama Uncle Frank

Dolly Parton’s Christmas On The Square: One scene alone is worth the Netflix subscription
- Film
- November 22, 2020, 06:00
Review: She writes the songs and pokes fun at herself in this bright, breezy festive showcase

Brandon Cronenberg: ‘I feel like I’m playing a video game about releasing a movie’
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- November 21, 2020, 05:00
Director on launching new film, Possessor, mid-pandemic and following his father’s lead

Collective: A woeful tale and a non-stop thriller documentary
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- November 20, 2020, 05:00
Review: Essential viewing for anyone with an interest in checks and balances

The Real Right Stuff: ‘They were like The Beatles before The Beatles came to America’
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- November 16, 2020, 05:00
A documentary companion piece to the Disney+ space drama captures the lives of of the lives of the first astronauts

Jingle Jangle: ‘It’s not just a Christmas movie with black people’
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- November 14, 2020, 05:00
Netflix’s spectacular seasonal musical film is inspired by Willy Wonka and Hamilton

Four new films to stream this weekend
- Film
- November 13, 2020, 06:00
The Life Ahead, Martin Eden, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Two of Us

Martin Eden: Cleverly captured sweep of cinematic history
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- November 13, 2020, 05:00
Review: Ambitious version of 1909 novel encapsulates between-the-wars uncertainty

Two of Us: Elegant story of a love that cannot speak its name
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- November 13, 2020, 05:00
Review: Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier in the plum roles of their careers

Fred Scott: ‘Roy Andersson felt like a cherished secret’
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- November 9, 2020, 05:00
Being a Human Person portrays an enigmatic Swedish director who may be done with films

How to Build a Girl: Beanie Feldstein shines in film of Caitlin Moran’s book
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- November 6, 2020, 06:15
Review: Moran’s trademark zingers and cheerfulness cross over to screen

Five new films to stream this weekend
- Film
- November 6, 2020, 06:00
About Endlessness, How to Build a Girl, Queen of Hearts, Luxor, Nova Lituania

Luxor: Aimless drama frustratingly resists Egyptian politics
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- November 6, 2020, 06:00
Review: Andrea Riseborough works under a frozen frame in Zeina Durra’s new film

About Endlessness: A droll form of despair
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- November 6, 2020, 05:00
Review: Roy Andersson’s new film is just his sixth since his explosive debut in 1970

Nova Lituania: An elegantly staged geopolitical car crash
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- November 6, 2020, 05:00
Review: Director makes no concessions to those with no knowledge of regional politics

The Witches are back
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- November 3, 2020, 06:00
Octavia Spencer, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci talk about their new version of Roald Dahl’s spooky novel

Four new films to stream this weekend
- Film
- October 30, 2020, 06:00
Relic, Shirley, The Witches, The Painter and the Thief

The Painter and the Thief: an unresolved artistic puzzle
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- October 30, 2020, 06:00
Review: There may be more than meets the eye in this documentary about stolen artworks

Shirley: a prickly, intriguing literary psychodrama
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- October 30, 2020, 05:00
Review: Elisabeth Moss anchors this eerie biopic of author Shirley Jackson with cutting wit

Relic: The creepiest horror movie of the year
- Film
- October 29, 2020, 05:00
Review: Bella Heathcote is a revelation in this nightmarish descent through dementia

The Witches: Ritzy high-jinx Roald Dahl adaptation plays the danger for laughs
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- October 28, 2020, 06:00
Review: Fans of 1990 version may fume but film is safer bet for younger Halloweenies

Bella Heathcote: ‘It was fun getting to be the Neighbours school b*tch’
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- October 28, 2020, 05:30
Australian actor on LA, auditions, shirts in her car boot and her latest film Relic

Shirley Jackson: ‘It’s thrilling to see a woman who doesn’t care about the niceties’
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- October 27, 2020, 05:30
Director Josephine Decker has taken on the life of author Shirley Jackson in a trippy and intoxicating biopic

Sophia Loren: ‘I never had a relationship with my father’
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- October 24, 2020, 05:00
The actor on her impoverished childhood, love for Daniel Day Lewis, and admiration for #metoo

The Secret Garden: An old-fashioned family film bolstered by lovely performances
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- October 23, 2020, 05:00
The action has moved to 1947 and the British partition of India

Summer of 85: Hormonal teen drama adds up to a pleasing Ozon doodle
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- October 23, 2020, 05:00
Review: French director’s latest flits between puppy love, sunny vistas and death

Borat 2: Rudy Giuliani’s trouser-reaching scene is the work of a daring young woman
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- October 22, 2020, 10:00
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review: Maria Bakalova is brilliant as Borat’s daughter

Ben Wheatley: ‘Films can’t all be about people being bludgeoned to death’
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- October 22, 2020, 05:00
The British director’s film of du Maurier’s Rebecca for Netflix is ‘romantic and glamorous. It’s a big entertainment’

Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wine
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- October 20, 2020, 05:00
Gremlins director talks Spielberg, low-budget horror and ‘bizarre’ film market

Margaret Cho: ‘Comedy is still the best decision I ever made in my life’
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- October 19, 2020, 05:00
Comedian and actor on surviving a difficult lockdown and US culture wars

Clouds review: squeaky-clean story of real-life teen’s battle with cancer
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- October 16, 2020, 05:00
This tale of musician and internet star Zach Sobiech is too sanitised for real adolescents

Time: Righteously angry indictment of US justice system
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- October 16, 2020, 05:00
Review: Documentary follows a family’s efforts to free their dad from a 60-year jail sentence

The Climb: An indie, buddy comedy that is a love letter to French cinema
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- October 14, 2020, 05:00
Kyle Marvin's A funny, clever comedy concerns road racing, male friendship, and fluctuating weight

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
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- October 10, 2020, 06:00
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

The 40-Year-Old Version: A wildly entertaining movie, in a big week for Netflix
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- October 9, 2020, 05:00
Review: Make way for triple threat Radha Blank – the writer, director and star of new film

Olivia Cooke: ‘Colm Meaney does everything with a wink and it’s so delicious’
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- October 8, 2020, 05:00
The Manchester actor on making the leap to Hollywood, and starring in new Irish-set film Pixie

My Zoe: Julie Delpy the movie star just about carries the silliest scenes
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- October 7, 2020, 05:00
The preposterous plotline is offset by great acting and a meringue-soft sci-fi setting

Accomplished actor Jennifer Ehle goes to bat for ‘Saint Maud’
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- October 3, 2020, 05:00
Latest film has won many admirers since premiere at Toronto International Film Festival

Eternal Beauty: Nuanced portrait of paranoid schizophrenia
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- October 2, 2020, 05:00
Review: Writer-director Craig Roberts reunites with Sally Hawkins for this darkly comic piece

The Boys in the Band is theatrical, dated and utterly fabulous
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- September 30, 2020, 05:00
Review: A terrific ensemble cast spit out one-liners in this high-camp period drama

Mark O’Halloran: 'I think I’ve gone as dark as I’m going to go’
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- September 29, 2020, 05:30
The writer has adapted his own Irish Times Theatre Award-winning play for the screen, and it wasn’t easy

Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’
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- September 26, 2020, 05:00
Alex Winter on friendship with Keanu Reeves, the risky new film and the fun side of fame

Enola Holmes is here to to steal some of her older brother Sherlock’s thunder
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- September 25, 2020, 06:00
Review: With a thrillingly charismatic Millie Bobby Brown, this crowd-pleaser is warm, witty and heaps of good fun

Bill & Ted Face the Music review: It’s an absolute delight
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- September 24, 2020, 05:30
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return almost 30 years on from the sequel, this third instalment is most excellent

Hong Khaou: ‘Vietnam is always seen as a victim. I wanted to show it as it is’
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- September 22, 2020, 05:00
The director’s new film, Monsoon, explores the wartime legacy of his childhood home

Nocturnal: An impressive piece of work, if a little slight
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- September 18, 2020, 05:00
Review: Friendless Lauren attracts the attention of rudderless odd-job man Pete

Rocks: A lippy, funny, electrifying teen drama
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- September 17, 2020, 05:00
Review: Created by a mostly female crew, starring the most charismatic cast of the year

Cosmo Jarvis: ‘I think Ireland tends to produce good actors’
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- September 15, 2020, 05:00
Musician, actor and filmmaker believes it is a good time to be in the acting game

Max Richter on creating his deliberately soporific masterpiece
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- September 12, 2020, 05:00
Richter and partner Yulia Mahr’s Sleep is intended to sustain and soothe the sleeping brain

Four new films to see this weekend
- Film
- September 11, 2020, 06:00
The Painted Bird, Koko-di Koko-da, Max Richter’s Sleep, Savage

Savage: New Zealand’s racist history and underclass laid bare
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- September 11, 2020, 05:00
NZ is not all Lord of the Rings scenery, as this powerful , violent gangland story illustrates

Koko-di Koko-da: The singing villain will haunt your dreams
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- September 11, 2020, 05:00
Review: Johannes Nyholm’s unforgettable woodland reverie is grotesque and glorious

Sally Potter: the always adventurous filmmaker
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- September 10, 2020, 05:00
Potter explores the fluidity of thought in her new movie about a father and daughter dealing with dementia

Les Misérables: better than La Haine, more incendiary than Do the Right Thing
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- September 4, 2020, 06:00
Review: A wild and electrifying modern French drama

Sócrates: A beautifully performed slice of Brazilian social realism
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- September 4, 2020, 05:00
Review: This tale of a 15-year-old living by his wits features wildly charismatic performances

‘Happy-ever-afters don’t make the most interesting stories’
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- August 29, 2020, 06:00
Matthias & Maxime is Xavier Dolan’s eighth feature as writer-director – and he’s only 31

Matthias and Maxime: A finely wrought drama
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- August 28, 2020, 05:00
Writer-director Xavier Dolan gives a crowning and delicate performance

She Dies Tomorrow: this no-budget sci-fi film is better than Tenet
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- August 28, 2020, 05:00
Seimetz creates lovely fragments and mysterious moods to sift through and decipher

Amy Seimetz: ‘I like laughing out really dark things’
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- August 22, 2020, 05:00
She Dies Tomorrow has been described as the ‘pandemic movie of the moment’ though it was made well before Covid, explains the dire(...)

Coup 53: A maddening, gripping portrait of how imperialism works
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- August 21, 2020, 05:00
Review: A story of western skulduggery in Iran takes in Bernie Sanders and Jimmy Carter

The One And Only Ivan: Never as good as a film featuring Chaka Khan as a chicken should be
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- August 20, 2020, 05:00
Review: There are too many subplots for the film to coalesce into a satisfactory movie

Sputnik: A more interesting watch than recent Hollywood alien films
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- August 14, 2020, 05:00
Sleekly packaged with well-paced horror set-pieces, it’s easy to see why film is a hit in its native Russia

Spree: Brash satire starring Patrick Bateman of the social media age
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- August 14, 2020, 05:00
Review: Stranger Things actor’s central turn holds inventive, cultish thriller together

The New Mutants: ‘I kept reading all these articles and none of it was true’
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- August 12, 2020, 05:00
After four years, and rumours of creative tensions, Josh Boone’s film is finally here

All eyes on Tenet, the spy movie with everything to prove
- Film
- August 8, 2020, 05:00
Covid-19 crisis means Christopher Nolan’s new film will be a bellwether for all cinema

Four new films to stream this weekend
- Film
- August 7, 2020, 06:00
Endings Beginning, Howard, Giraffe, Spaceship Earth

Howard: Portrait of lyricist from Disney’s new Golden Age
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- August 7, 2020, 05:00
Review: Film suitable for young fans despite difficult ending to Ashman’s life