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I wanted to be won over by Electric Meat. Everything about it is designed to appeal to the part of me that loves cinema at its strangest: a wordless, black and white psychosexual thriller from the comic book artist Dan Schaffer, making his feature directing debut, premiering in the dead
Rating: 4.5★
There is a particular breed of coming-of-age story that feels less like a plot and more like a memory, the kind where the specific details, a mixtape, a tunnel, the smell of a school corridor, do more emotional work than any dramatic set piece ever could. Stephen Chbosky&
Rating: 2.0★
Queens of the Dead arrives in 2025 with a premise that feels, on paper, like it was built in a laboratory to generate goodwill: a zombie outbreak tears through a Brooklyn warehouse party, and a motley crew of drag queens, club kids and frenemies have to pool their very particular
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Remembering Peter Cullen: the films of theirs I've reviewed, and a few words on the work.
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I will admit to coming at Over/Under from a particular angle. I have a twelve year old daughter, and Sophia Silver's coming of age drama captures so much of what I see in her life right now, the shifting friendships, the first brushes with puberty, the endless
Rating: 2.5★
Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit first appeared in 1902 as a privately printed picture letter, and the little blue-coated rabbit has been a fixture of British childhood ever since. The stories are gentle things: soft watercolours, a walled garden, a bad-tempered gardener, and the quiet moral that
Rating: 3.0★
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's picture book The Gruffalo's Child arrived in 2004, five years after the original The Gruffalo had become one of the best-selling children's books in British publishing history. Where the first book introduced a clever little mouse spinning predators
Rating: 3.5★
Few films in the history of British cinema arrived with quite as much expectation and logistical weight as Doctor Zhivago. Based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel, published in the West in 1957 after the Soviet authorities suppressed it at home, the source material already carried enormous
Rating: 4.0★
Jonah Hill is perhaps not the first name you would expect on a director's chair for a quiet, personal coming-of-age film. Best known as a performer across broad comedies and a string of awards-friendly supporting turns, Hill spent years quietly working on what would become
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Remembering Tim Curry: the films of theirs I've reviewed, and a few words on the work.
Rating: 4.0★
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler published The Gruffalo in 1999, and within a decade it had become one of those rare children's books that parents can recite from memory whether they want to or not. The rhyming couplets, the woodland setting, the mouse with an improbable imagination: all
Rating: 3.0★
Roald Dahl's 1983 novel The Witches occupies a particular corner of children's literature: charming on the surface, genuinely alarming underneath. Dahl never much softened his edges for younger readers, and the book, with its bald premise that witches are real, hate children, and walk among us
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