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Even before they’d had a chance to see this film, fans of Amy Winehouse were complaining from the trailer that Marisa Abela, who plays Amy, was miscast and couldn’t sing as well as their heroine.
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Alex Garland’s film is set in a near future, where America is at war with itself. No reason is given but the unlikely alliance of the states of Texas and California as the Western Forces is locked in a war to take over the country from the federal government in Washington.
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This elegant albeit often foul mouthed dark satire with a touch of farce is a nicely polished exercise in middle class guilt and self-loathing, which is reminiscent in some ways of Yasmina Reza’s play turned into film, Carnage.
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In every sense an epic for our times, told with focus on the human foibles of its characters, Italy’s nomination for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Academy Awards is a tense and rewarding watch.
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Despite sharing star billing in the title, this is very much Kong’s movie. Godzilla doesn’t really come into his own until the climactic battle the audience has been waiting for, when the two titans of the “MonsterVerse” join forces to save the world from extinction.
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Next door neighbours Alice (Jessica Chastain) and Celine (Anne Hathaway) are close friends, as are their respective young sons Theo (Eamon O’Connell and Max (Baylen D. Bielitz).
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The short choppy opening scenes of the film make it difficult to sort out at first who is who and to get a grip on the situation, which revolves around Frankie (Vicky Knight), who is a nurse.
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This animated film is beautifully drawn, very moving and utterly charming. It has no dialogue so is suitable for all the family except perhaps very young children. It deals with universal themes of friendship, loneliness and belonging.
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The New Boy is the latest film from Aboriginal Australian writer/director Warwick Thornton, and like his previous films it is a story relating to his own indigenous people.
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The Inventor of the title is 16th century genius Leonardo da Vinci, whose range of interests and talents covered both the arts (Mona Lisa and The Last Supper) and the sciences – astrology, mathematics, architecture, and human zoology.
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