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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 less you’ll actually see” uttered

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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, there’s a textured sensuality to the

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Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of…

The film’s title, renamed from the story’s original Save the Green Planet!, speaks to a central fascination of Kubrick spanning from Lolita to Eyes Wide Shut. ​“Bugonia”

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Guillermo del Toro: ‘The world breaks your heart,…

Ever since he was a child, Guillermo del Toro has been fascinated by Mary Shelley’s ​‘Frankenstein’. It is the story of a man who played God, and

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Yemi Bamiro on the making of Black Is Beautiful:…

It was the Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised, and Harlem-championing photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite who came to popularise the phrase ​“Black is Beautiful,” which grew into the cultural movement

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The Mastermind | Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere | Two Lane Blacktop (1971)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and finally, for film club, Two Lane Blacktop.

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Hedda review – Tessa Thompson reshapes the…

For a director’s project that would come in between an MCU sequel and the latest in the 28 Days… zombie horror series, Ibsen seems an unconventional

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Kelly Reichardt: ‘I’m fascinated with people…

Kelly Reichardt is one of the greatest directors working in the world today. Her films such as Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Certain Women and

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LWLies 110: The Frankenstein issue – Out now!

In the back section… Jafar Panahi Marina Ashioti talks to the Iranian legend who discusses his deserving Palme d’Or-winner, It Was Just an Accident. Lynne

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The Appeal Of Cinema’s Unlikely Angels

Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Good Fortune comes to cinemas this month, and stars Keanu Reeves as a guardian angel named Gabriel. He has small wings that