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Motherless Brooklyn - A detective with Tourette's Syndrome - which makes him twitch and jerk involuntarily and say nonsensical things - is certainly an original concept, although over the...

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Gremlins (reissue) - Basically a children's film with horrific overtones, this is a vastly entertaining fantasy from the 1980s, now given a gleaming new 4K restoration. Director Dante...

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Ordinary Love - With a film about a devoted couple living in early retirement in Belfast - a showcase for the considerable acting abilities of its two stars - we know that one or other...

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Little Monsters - The Living Dead (and obviously I am not referring to the legions of sleeping MPs so often seen slumbering in the House of Commons) have been a regular horror movie...

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Charlie's Angels - The remake (which, along with the sequel, is fast becoming a favourite Hollywood genre) hits the screen again with yet another big-screen version of the TV series that...

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Knives Out - In the tradition of such multi-star frolics as The Cheap Detective and Murder by Death comes this slightly less knowing whodunit, as multi-millionaire...

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Nightingale, The - Here's the Australian equivalent of an American western. And it's a film I wanted to like more than I did. It's directed by the woman who made The Babadook,...

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21 Bridges - Boseman's follow-up to his global success with Black Panther is a fast-paced, race-along police thriller casting him as an NYPD super-cop walking on water as...

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