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Motherboard review – enthralling smartphone self-portrait of family life
Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary stitches 20 years’ worth of footage into a home video love letter to her son, whose whole life so far is observed

Peter Bradshaw

18, Mar, 2024 @7:35 PM

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Brightwood review – enterprising sci-fi horror sees jogging couple caught in a loop
Dane Elcar writes, directs and films this innovative indie movie that follows a bickering couple with seemingly no end

Catherine Bray

18, Mar, 2024 @2:04 PM

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Late Night With the Devil review – demonic talkshow channels horror of 1970s TV
The directors have fun sending up TV conventions, as a failing host attempts to revive his career by communing with a demon, supposedly possessing a teenage girl

Phil Hoad

18, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Lovely, Dark, and Deep review – compelling protagonist elevates gnarly, brooding horror
Teresa Sutherland’s beautifully shot debut has you rooting for a park ranger investigating a disappearance, even if the ambiguity around malevolent forces grows tiring

Catherine Bray

18, Mar, 2024 @9:00 AM

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Calvinia review – jarringly nostalgic look at a South African childhood
Ran der Merwe’s documentary returns the director to the Northern Cape where he grew up, but glosses over trauma and injustice

Phuong Le

18, Mar, 2024 @7:00 AM

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Safari Detective review – kids versus rhino poachers in warm-hearted adventure
A seven-year-old boy hits the trail of the bad guys with guns in this family movie which has lots for curious kids to pick up on, even if the PG jeopardy pulls no punches

Cath Clarke

17, Mar, 2024 @7:19 PM

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Irish Wish review – no cliche is left unturned in lamentable Lindsay Lohan romcom
The American star plays a bridesmaid disrupting her best friend’s nuptials somewhere in Ireland. Only the leprechauns are missing

Wendy Ide

17, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Paolo Taviani obituary
Acclaimed Italian film-writer and director who worked in tandem with his brother Vittorio for six decades

Adrian Wootton

17, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Who you gonna call? Meet the real ghostbusters
Ghost hunting is having a moment... in graveyards, pubs, old houses, and on social media. Sally Howard meets the new spirit seekers

Sally Howard

17, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM

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Drive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen’s lesbian crime caper gets stuck in first gear
This gleefully trashy road movie from Coen, co-written with wife Tricia Cooke, veers too close to puerile for comfort

Wendy Ide

17, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

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‘You can’t always win in this industry’: Theo James
The actor found fame as the cocky finance bro in The White Lotus. Now, as he stars in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, he talks to Tim Lewis about being ‘irritatingly competitive’, giving up music for acting – and whether James Bond really is on the horizon...

Tim Lewis

17, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

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Phantom Parrot review – eye-opening documentary about Orwellian surveillance in the UK
The arrest of a British Muslim who refused to give up his phone password to UK border police kicks off Kate Stonehill’s look at the state’s excessive intrusion into our privacy

Wendy Ide

17, Mar, 2024 @11:30 AM

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