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Tenzing

Everyone is familiar with Edmund Hillary being the first person to summit Mount Everest in 1953. Who people…

By Andrew Murray
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Street Fighter

The third live-action adaptation of the Street Fighter video game series (after 1994’s Street Fighter and 2009’s Street…

By Umar Ali
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Whalefall

Currently still in cinemas with Resident Evil – where the hefty weight of saving the world from a…

By Selina Sondermann
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These Violent Delights

With These Violent Delights, Scottish Ballet's artistic director Christopher Hampson and filmmaker Oscar Sansom team up for a…

By Antonia Georgiou
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The Uprising

A dramatisation of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, The Uprising stars Andrew Garfield as a farmer known only as…

By Umar Ali
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Other Mommy

Broken homes are a prevalent trope in horror. The emotional trauma of families falling apart is the ideal…

By Andrew Murray
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Animals

“Humans are animals who tell stories.” Mark Kimball (Ben Affleck) is running for mayor of Los Angeles, currently…

By Selina Sondermann
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The Social Reckoning

In an era of reboots, sequels and prequels, it would be easy to dismiss this companion to The…

By Antonia Georgiou
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Just Play Dead

Adapted from screenwriter Dan Gordon’s novel of the same name, Just Play Dead sees Samuel L Jackson star…

By Andrew Murray
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Kikuyu Land

Kenya may have gained its independence from British rule over half a century ago, but the scars of…

By Andrew Murray