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Operation Mincemeat | Review

Get Them to the Greek: Madden Traipses Lightly Through Factual WWII Espionage Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat

An acquisitions friendly title from across the pound with all the production value trimmings that we feel would have normally splashed in the Premieres...

Eternal Beauty | Review

Unhappy-Go-Lucky: Hawkes Shines in Roberts’ Mental Illness Drama The depiction of mental illness, particularly something like schizophrenia, a real condition often posed as a catch-all...

Summerland | Review

Castles in the Sky: Swale Finds Love During Wartime in Likeable Debut Although it’s a somewhat simple and ultimately schmaltzy dose of narrative convenience, Jessica...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #150. Operation Mincemeat – John Madden

Operation Mincemeat Moving into his fourth decade of filmmaking, British director John Madden returns with a major pull the rug WWII drama in Operation Mincemeat....

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #24. Craig Roberts – Eternal Beauty

Not really the dark horse pick selection that was his feature debut, actor Craig Roberts has been to the fest beforehand (Richard Ayoade’s Submarine...

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La grazia | Review

The Long Goodbye: Sorrentino Returns to Familiar Remembrances of...

Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born...

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

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Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals...