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Evil Dead Burn review – struggles to stay alight

Since Sam Raimi’s gruesome franchise was brought screaming back to life with the 90-minute bloody ascension that is Evil Dead Rise, a trilogy of Deadite movies

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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Article

Repetition is a part of this theatre of the absurd. As ​“Matt and Jay try to get a show at The Rivoli…” appears at the start of

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Birds of War review – boundary-breaking love story

What does it look like to build a life with someone you’ve never actually been in the same room as? Birds of War defies the typical screen

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The Invite review – a roaring poly-rom-com

Upon its release in 1969, Paul Mazursky’s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was both praised and criticised for being a social commentary and a verdict on marriage (and

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Making A Splash: Remembering Hockney Onscreen

It seems oddly fitting that David Hockney’s death should coincide with a heatwave. After all, nobody can evoke the languorous feeling of summer quite like the

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The Last Viking review – Danish dark comedy is a…

The latest feature from the Danish screenwriter and filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen follows Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) as he returns from serving a 15-year prison sentence

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Porous Encounters: A Queer East Correspondence

This is the second of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together six writers for a programme of

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Lesbian Space Princess review – a Sapphic sci-fi…

“I thought dating a space princess would be more… fun,” confesses Kiki (Bernie Van Tiel), the soon-to-be ex-girlfriend of Princess Saira (Shabana Azeez) of the planet

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Scott Z Burns | Erupcja + Pete Ohs | Enzo

On Truth & Movies this week, we meet up with Scott Z. Burns to chat all things Contagion and SXSW London. Plus we review Pete

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Time and Water review – a lament for a…

“I cannot send you a glacier, but at least I can send you this.” Time and Water sets out its purpose early on. Directed by Sara Dosa, whose