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Coherence

Coherence is proof that there is still uncharted territory to explore in cinema. The latest in a string…

By Natasha Furlong
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Dancing in Jaffa

You don’t have to know much about dance to understand or even appreciate the incentives behind Dancing in…

By David McGroarty-Manley
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Jauja

Former students who are versed in the languages of critical theory and semiotics have a blinkered tendency to…

By Mark Warburton
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Still Alice

Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is living the American dream. She has an apartment in New York on the…

By Scarlet Howes
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Jupiter Ascending

When it comes to ambition, regardless of results, the Wachowskis always aim high. Be it the philosophy in…

By Matthew Lee
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Love Is Strange

Love Is Strange’s most meaningful moments are in the tiny revelations regarding the complicated relationship at its heart.…

By Joe Manners Lewis
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Snow in Paradise

Dave, played by new discovery Frederick Schmidt, is the nephew of the menacingly breathy-voiced Jimmy (Martin Askew). Believing…

By Culture Desk
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The Turning

This production of Tim Winton’s popular short story collection The Turning uses 17 stories to weave together themes of…

By Andriana Hambi
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Shaun the Sheep the Movie

Making the sheepish leap from the small screen, Shaun the Sheep the Movie is the latest Aardman production attempting…

By Keir Smith
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Life of Riley

The late French New Wave master Alain Resnais began his career tackling such thorny issues as the Holocaust…

By Matthew Lee