Weird and wonderful at the London Film Festival 2024
Outside of the big names and big films, there are some great looking, less celebrated films on offer at London Film Festival 2024
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Author: Colin Dibben
The Champions (18) |Home Ents Review
You’ll probably keep an innocent smile on your face – one that would do youthful looking lead Yuen Biao proud – while watching this immensely likeable blend of martial arts comedy and football.
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Big Beasts at the London Film Festival 2024
The London Film Festival 2024 runs from 9 to 20 October. There are some big name films and some great in-person events to watch out for
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Pharoah (Faraon) (12) |Home Ents Review
This stately and austere Ancient Egyptian political thriller is absolutely unique and riveting to watch. It is, in fact, a sort of anti-epic, which refrains from using many of the engaging if excessive elements of Biblical/Ancient Egyptian epic cinema.
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Starve Acre (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Atmosphere, period detail and provenance prevail in Daniel Kokotajlo’s second feature, which is a loving ode to the 1970s folk horror tradition.
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Nothing But The Best (12) |Home Ents Review
This dark and acerbic 1960s British comedy explores our obsession with the ‘haves’ and their high-class mores through the tinted lenses of an ambitious working-class young man.
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A Bittersweet Life (18) |Home Ents Review
Looking pretty much like a classic of the gangster genre, this violent and visually stunning Korean film has not aged a bit. It has been restored for the 4K UHD market and is well worth watching.
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The Double Crossers (15) |Home Ents Review
Half martial arts action thriller, half east Asian travelogue, The Double Crossers is a lot of fun, although you may well want to file it under ‘so bad, it’s good’.
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The Music Lovers (15) |Home Ents Review
Frenetic, gorgeous, overblown and totally tongue in cheek, Ken Russell’s exuberant exploration of the hetero-married life of gay composer Tchaikovsky.
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A Dry White Season (15) |Home Ents Review
The first major Hollywood produced film directed by a Black woman gets the high-definition Blu-ray treatment for the first time in the UK. It is an exceptional and nuanced piece of work that is well worth watching.
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