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Jericho Ridge - A British film shot in Kosovo and set in America with a multi-national cast doesn't sound too promising, but this is one dynamite action film and you'd better believe...

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Civil War - This is a very expensive-looking, but pretty darn good action film. Full of grisly violence and disturbing images, it's set in a dystopian future and posits the idea...

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Mothers' Instinct - A slow, sombre story of grief and discomfort which, based on a 2018 film from France, goes full-blown psycho melodrama on us towards the end. In this version, it's...

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Sweet East, The - A festival favourite from the back end of last year, cinematographer-turned-filmmaker Williams' bottom-budget indie has caused critics to write thousand-word essays on...

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Ghost Busters: Frozen Empire - Perhaps the last gasp of the famous old franchise, this unevenly-paced action comedy opens in 1904, where, at the firehouse building now occupied by the new Ghost...

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Immaculate - Director Mahon goes for maximum intensity, spook and scare, with scenes of indescribably savagery, in this well-made horror film packed with jump scares (although they...

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Roaring Twenties, The (reissue) - 1939 was the banner year for the movies, giving us Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, La Grande Illusion, Goodbye, Mr Chips!, The Four Feathers, Mr Smith...

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Soul - Denied a proper wide release on its first appearance due to lockdown restrictions, this is another brilliant animation feature from Pixar, although the few scary moments...

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