Ben Flanagan

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    Movie
    The United States Vs Billie Holiday
    ★★★★★

    The song Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday’s paean against lynching –...

    Ben Flanagan 24th February 2021
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    Movie
    My Darling Supermarket
    ★★★★★

    Hands, busy at work, move across a bench. Out of focus, tools pile up. Wires...

    Ben Flanagan 18th February 2021
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    Clementine
    ★★★★★

    The lake house setting is ideal fodder for American independent filmmakers. It is a shortcut...

    Ben Flanagan 8th February 2021
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    Film festivals
    Would You Rather (Tu Préfères)
    ★★★★★

    Part of Sundance’s Indie Series strand, Arte France’s Would You...

    Ben Flanagan 2nd February 2021
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    Film festivals
    Wild Indian
    ★★★★★

    Playing in the US Dramatic Competition at Sundance, Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr’s debut...

    Ben Flanagan 2nd February 2021
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    Movie
    Feast
    ★★★★★

    Grainy video close-up of gyrating flesh, a pulsing soundtrack: Tim Leyendekker’s IFFR Tiger Competition...

    Ben Flanagan 1st February 2021
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    The Dig
    ★★★★★

    Based on John Preston’s 2007 novel – which imagines the story behind the 1939 Sutton...

    Ben Flanagan 25th January 2021
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    The Capote Tapes
    ★★★★★

    Hollywood has always been fascinated by glimmering portraits of prominent, gay 20th-century...

    Ben Flanagan 25th January 2021
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    Pieces of a Woman
    ★★★★★

    The first thing to get out of the way in Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a...

    Ben Flanagan 6th January 2021
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    Music
    Five 2020 albums for an electronic Christmas

    The great Christmas albums are few and far between. A Christmas Gift for You from...

    Ben Flanagan 23rd December 2020