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Sight Extended review – unsettling tale is an eye-opener in our age of AI anxiety
An agoraphobic downloads an app that promises to turn his life around – but things begin to get sinister when it takes over his social interactions
Cath Clarke
07, Jun, 2023 @6:00 AM
Medusa Deluxe review – hairdressing-contest whodunnit shapes up stylishly
After a coiffeur gets scalped at an event, a model turns detective in this flamboyant first feature from Thomas Hardiman
Cath Clarke
06, Jun, 2023 @10:00 AM
WoolfWomen: Now or Never review – wild skateboarding doc heads for Turkey
Following an all-female team of terrifying risk-takers doesn’t really tell us much about the sport, or the daredevils themselves
Cath Clarke
05, Jun, 2023 @12:00 PM
‘I felt I wouldn’t be taken seriously’: Riley Keough on movie-making, friendship and privilege
Keough – Elvis’s granddaughter – had already made her name as an actor. Then as a first-time director, she won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. She and creative partner Gina Gammell talk about War Pony, their film about a Native American reservation
Cath Clarke
02, Jun, 2023 @7:00 AM
Mad About the Boy - The Noël Coward Story review – brisk trot through life and career
Speeding through Coward’s journey from humble origins to all-round megastardom, we don’t get to engage with his complex private life
Cath Clarke
30, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
Carmen review – Paul Mescal’s moves will have his fanbase melting
Mescal and Melissa Barrera lead this modern-day version of Bizet’s opera, which awkwardly combines tough realism with high-gloss romance
Cath Clarke
30, May, 2023 @6:00 AM
Old Man review – wilderness horror as cranky codger faces off with mysterious hiker
Lucky McKee’s psychological horror starring Stephen Lang feels inauthentic and flat
Cath Clarke
29, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
Sisu review – grisly feast of extravagant violence as Finnish hero slaughters Nazis
Cheerfully entertaining action film follows a granite-faced Finnish gold miner with a hunting knife as he kills the enemy in wildly silly ways
Cath Clarke
24, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
Full Time review – school-run thriller turns into high-stakes motherhood drama
Laure Calamy plays a woman forever racing between maternal and work duties in an acutely relatable story that grips
Cath Clarke
24, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
Butterfly Vision review – grim drama about Ukrainian prisoners of the Donbas war
This film offers an unsparing view of how PoWs are treated when they return home – but it may not reflect the current mood
Cath Clarke
15, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
Portrait of Kaye review – at home with an agoraphobe, in gently affectionate study
In the house she grew up in, unchanged for 50 years, the creative and delightful Kaye lives with her memories and an unexpected bohemian freedom
Cath Clarke
15, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
Cotton100% review – how forced labour paid the price of Uzbekistan’s ‘white gold’
Two brave women stand up for human rights as hordes of Uzbeks are dragged from their workplaces to pick state cotton, in this compelling documentary exposing farming practices only just outlawed
Cath Clarke
08, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
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