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Bones and All 2022
"As the absurdity of Timothée Chalamet’s roles in 2022 and beyond expand, so do their admirers. So far, his performances have become assumed firm favourites for 20 somethings in coming-of-age dramas, from paranoid bass player prone to monologuing in Lady Bird, to no less than Gerwig’s interpretation of the charmingly desperate Theodore Laurence in Little Women. The young leading man in Luca Guadagnino’s gay summer romance set in 1983 Italy Call Me By Your Name, Chalamet became simultaneously posterboyish yet…
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Nothing Compares 2022
"Kathryn Ferguson’s Nothing Compares chronicles the life and career of Sinéad O’Connor. The documentary is compiled with interview footage and voice-overs of the people closest to O’Connor, as they recall her career’s rise and fall. It’s a provocative piece of the pop star’s story that shows how her political stance changed everything. Her image is unlike anything that was seen during that time and created many narratives about who she was; her buzzed head and provocative performances raised many questions…
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Dear Future Children 2021
"Franz Böhm spearheaded this blindingly relevant documentary as its director, but as he later said in a Q&A following this screening, this film is shared. It is no more his than it is that of the hundreds of people who worked on it. Thankfully, this impression is conveyed throughout Dear Future Children, and makes the viewing experience all the richer for it.
Following protagonists Rayan, Pepper, and Hilda, this documentary gives space to what we’ve seen splashed across newspaper headlines…
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 2020
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) punches hard. Fists of pent up frustration fly with no regret as she takes on Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) and his Gotham goons. Harley narrates her story; having just split up with The Joker “for good”, she backtracks and introduces characters as and when she feels like it. Between tattooing her thigh, cutting her hair and looking after her pet hyena, Harley’s time is dedicated to reasserting her place in Gotham city.
Birds of Prey, or…