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Anniversary feature: La Dolce Vita and the star too big for Hollywood

January 20, 2020 Harry Jones Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, Marcello Mastroianni

Ahead of La Dolce Vita’s anniversary screenings at The Electric Cinema, we wonder why Marcello Mastroianni never became a Hollywood star.

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Film review: Uncut Gems is a roller coaster crash you can’t look away from

January 16, 2020 Harry Jones Adam Sandler, Benny Safdie, Eric Bogosian, Good Time, Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems

The Safdie Brothers up the ante in a thriller that you’ll find yourself trying to alter the course of as it descends into unbearability.

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Feature: Yes, Cats is a CGI eyesore, but there’s so much more wrong

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 Antonia Strafford-Taylor Cats, Tom Hooper

You’ve heard about the soul-troubling CGI cat monstrosities, but there’s plenty else amiss n Tom Hooper’s catastrophic production.

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Preview: Slip into the surreal with Jodorowsky at The Mockingbird

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 Blaise Radley Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, The Mockingbird

The Mockingbird is showing two films by one of cinema’s all time-great surrealists, Alejandro Jodorowsky – El Topo, and The Holy Mountain.

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Film review: Never mind the controversy, Jojo Rabbit is just boring

January 8, 2020 Matthew Floyd Jojo Rabbit, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Stephen Merchant, Taika Watiti

Taika Waititi’s new WWII-set comedy-drama Jojo Rabbit about a Nazi boy’s compassionate awakening skews resonance for dullness.

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Feature: Counteract’s 20 greatest films of 2019

January 6, 2020January 8, 2020 Blaise Radley Atlantics, Bait, Booksmart, Burning, Dragged Across Concrete, Eighth Grade, For Sama, Happy As Lazzaro, Her Smell, If Beale Street Could Talk, In Fabric, Knives Out, Marriage Story, Minding the Gap, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ray & Liz, The Farewell, The Favourite, The Irishman, The Souvenir

The year might have closed with a few duds, but 2019 has been great for film. Read on to find out some of our favourites.

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TV review: Gavin and Stacey return for a spellbinding Christmas Special

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Matthew Floyd Gavin and Stacey, James Corden, Joanna Page, Matthew Horne, Ruth Jones

Ten years on, Gavin and Stacey are gloriously back with full hearts and small troubles for a Christmas Special.

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Film review: 6 Underground will make you unwell from its awfulness

December 22, 2019December 22, 2019 Matthew Floyd 6 Underground, Melanie Laurent, Michael Bay, Ryan Reynolds

Michael Bay teams up with Netflix to give us 6 Underground, a film so aggressively horrendous you can almost taste it

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Film review: The Rise of Skywalker coughs, splutters, soils itself and dies

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 Blaise Radley Daisy Ridley, JJ Abrams, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac, Rian Johnson, The Rise of Skywalker

Disney’s increasingly laboured Star Wars trilogy doesn’t so much as fall across the finish line as faceplant into it. Enter at your own risk.

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Film review: Atlantics blends star-crossed lovers with supernatural satire

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Matthew Floyd Atlantics, Ibrahima Traoré, Mame Bineta Sane, Mati Diop

Debut feature director Mati Diop’s Atlantics tells a heady story of fantastical love against economic oppression in Senegal.

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