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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2018, Part 1
Where did 2018 go? For me it’s been a funny year of highs and lows, beginnings and ends and other summing-up-the-year clichés as well. In film, the year started well, then flagged a bit in the middle before picking up … Continue reading →
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Tagged Beast, Black Panther, Blade Runner, Clio Barnard, Dark River, Disney, Duncan Jones, Hold the Dark, Imaginarium Productions, Jeremy Saulnier, Marvel, Mike Leigh, Moon, Mowgli, Mute, Netflix, Paul Dano, Peterloo, Ruth Wilson, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Open House, Thoroughbreds, Tomb Raider, Wildlife
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Review: Dark River (2017/18)
It’s been a pretty great few years for Yorkshire film and it’s also been an unexpectedly verdant trend of dramas set in the world of farming. Of course there are only going to be more films like this that focus … Continue reading →
Posted in Film, Film Review
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Tagged Clio Barnard, Dark River, Drama, Mark Stanley, Ruth Wilson, Sean Bean
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2017, Part 2
Before we press on with Part 2 of my Review of 2017 (Part 1 here), just a few honourable mentions that didn’t quite make the Top 10, but are worthy of recognition for one reason or another. It’s been a … Continue reading →
Posted in Film, Film Review
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Tagged A Ghost Story, Alex Garland, Avengers: Infinity War, Baby Driver, Black Panther, Blade Runner 2049, Bright, Clio Barnard, David Ayer, Denis Villeneuve, Edgar Wright, Get Out, Ghost in the Shell, Harrison Ford, James McAvoy, Johnny Depp, Jordan Peele, Logan, Lois Smith, Looney Tunes, M Night Shyamalan, Marjorie Prime, Marvel, Michael Bay, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, Ridley Scott, Ryan Gosling, Split, Suicide Squad, The Levelling, Transformers: The Last Knight, Wonder Woman
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Review: The Selfish Giant (2013)
THE SELFISH GIANT feels like a wonderful amalgamation of OLIVER TWIST and STAND BY ME transposed to the rougher end of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It’s a social realist fable that deals with real-world hardship in a punchy manner, but always … Continue reading →
Posted in Film, Film Review
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Tagged Clio Barnard, Conner Chapman, Drama, Film, Ken Loach, Movies, Oliver Twist, Sean Gilder, Sean Thomas, Shane Meadows, Siobhan Finneran, Stand By Me, Steve Evets, The Selfish Giant
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