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Under the Rainbow

There is one particular second act segment in Agnès Jaoui’s latest effort that aptly summarises Under the Rainbow…

By Gareth Lloyd
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The Golden Dream

Winner of multiple awards, The Golden Dream (original title, La Jaula de Oro) lingers about you like ahangover…

By Miriam Karmali
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Welcome to New York

Gérard Depardieu stars as the controversial lead in Abel Ferrara’s corrupt tale of a powerful economic player, in…

By Keir Smith
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Cold in July

The page-to-screen adaptation of Joe R Lansdale’s book Cold in July is soon to hit UK cinema screens. Directed…

By Booker Woodford
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Chef

Written, directed and acted by Jon Favreau, Chef embraces the art of food in film. Told through a…

By Katie George
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We Are Monster

14 years ago in Feltham Young Offenders Institution in London, first-time felon Zahid Mubarek was murdered by his cellmate…

By Gareth Lloyd
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God’s Pocket

John Slattery’s God’s Pocket is a gloomy tale of a small town in Philadelphia that both time and…

By Joanna Byrne
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Miss Violence

In 1997 Michael Haneke made a psycho thriller called Funny Games that exhorted the audience to leave the…

By Matthew McKernan
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Jersey Boys

Off the back of the Broadway success of the musical comes the movie: Jersey Boys, a musical biography…

By Thoralf Karlsen