A wealthy English man walks into a pub in rural Wales. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is the start to a joke but rather, this is the set-up to Sam Rees’ Cyn – a moving portrait of Welsh working-class identity in the mid-90s. A chamber piece, Cyn’s story unfurls within the walls of...
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Severance season two begins in motion – a fitting start to a season delayed by the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike. After ending on a nail-biting cliffhanger and having to wait an agonising three years, season two finally arrived. For a while, Severance was television’s best-kept secret – a funny,...
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From its opening meet-cute where a bright-eyed girl meets a clumsy boy in the fruit section of a supermarket, Companion seems like your typical romance film. It’s a bit cliche but there’s something sweet and endearing. Our leads, Iris (soon-to-be horror royalty Sophie Thatcher) and Josh (The Boys’ Jack Quaid)...
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Despite receiving one of the most biting takedowns I’ve seen of any genre in Jake Kasdan’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the musical biopic has remained a resilient figure in the cinematic landscape, with the film industry wheeling out several retellings of the lives of the famous every year...
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Below is a list of some of our writers’ favourite Christmas films to watch over the holiday season. So grab a hot chocolate and a blanket and watch them and you might just have a new favourite Christmas film! Love Actually Hannah Guthrie Only the best Christmas rom-com of all...
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Archie Douglas-Hamilton reviews the gnarly and excessive body horror hit
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