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A timely tale of love and loss
20th Apr 2025
by David Vass
Written by Nick Payne and directed by John Crowley, “We Live in Time” is set during three time periods — one lasts several years, another six months and the third about a day — that… read more
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Are you not Entertained?
23rd Mar 2025
by David Vass
Gladiator II is the sequel that was a long time coming. So long, in fact, that Paul Mescal plays the son of Russell Crowe's Maximus, all grown up since a dalliance with Connie Nielsen's Lucilla… read more
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Wonka is a chocolate box of delights
28th Mar 2024
by David Vass
Director Paul King is the man behind the Paddington movies, so we have every right to expect great things from Wonka, and his trademark whimsy has certain certainly been put to good use again. The… read more
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A Final Curtain Call for Caine and Jackson
21st Mar 2024
by David Vass
  Michael Caine and the late Glenda Jackson bring their considerable acting skills to bear on The Great Escaper, a simple, heart-warming story of a D-day veteran who "escapes" to France to attend the 70th… read more
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Come and see the violence inherent in the system
14th Mar 2024
by David Vass
They say the necessity is the mother of invention, and I doubt there's a better exemplar of the maxim than Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a film that, as the posters said at the… read more
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An Unlikely tale of Contrition and Kindness
8th Mar 2024
by David Vass
Adapted from Rachel Joyce’s bestselling novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a deceptively simple tale of a man that walks the length of England, imagining that the act itself will prevent an old friend… read more
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A Haunting tale of Murder
29th Feb 2024
by David Vass
Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot adventure, very loosely based on Agatha Christie's Halloween Party, is a significant departure from the star filled travelogues that preceded it, and is all the better for it. While the essential… read more
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And Then Come The Nightjars
15th Feb 2024
by David Vass
The fictional world of the Detectorists, the fishing exploits of Whitehouse and Mortimer and Benjamin Myer's Perfect Golden Circle all deal with the stoic, idiosyncratic, emotionally repressed bond between two heterosexual men, but its a… read more
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Past Lives wonders what might have been
7th Feb 2024
by David Vass
Celine Song's astonishingly assured directorial debut seems all the more poignant when you learn it is loosely autobiographical. Much like Greta Lee’s Nora, she lives in New York, having migrated from Korea twenty years previously.… read more
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A whip smart script makes for a cracking film
24th Jan 2024
by David Vass
Can it really be over forty years since the first Indiana Jones film? If so, can it really be Harrison Ford running atop a moving train in the latest one? With the assistance of some… read more
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