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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves review – passable, playful adventure

Post Views: 8 Michelle Rodriguez and Chris Pine in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Photograph: Aidan Monaghan Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves review – passable, playful adventure There’s just about enough goofy charm, if not enough humour, in this serviceable attempt to create a new big-screen franchise from …

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Law of Tehran review – ferocious Michael Mann-style thriller of the Iranian underworld

Post Views: 6 Law of Tehran review – ferocious Michael Mann-style thriller of the Iranian underworld Fanatical energy … Law of Tehran. Photograph: Vertigo Releasing A barnstorming – and ultimately gruesome – opening sequence sets the grisly action-packed tone, as a morally ambiguous cop takes on a powerful drug lord If …

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Jeremy Renner posts first video of himself walking after snowplough accident

Post Views: 5 Jeremy Renner posts first video of himself walking after snowplough accident Jeremy Renner at a Hawkeye screening in November, 2021. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images The actor, who broke more than 30 bones after being run over on New Year’s Day, is seen using an ‘anti-gravity’ treadmill Actor Jeremy …

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Little Eggs: An African Rescue review – a head-scrambling animated ordeal

Post Views: 0 Little Eggs: An African Rescue review – a head-scrambling animated ordeal Why are the kids talking eggs and not hatched chicks? Little Eggs: an African Rescue. Photograph: © Huevocartoon Producciones A family of anthropomorphised eggs land themselves in hot water in a dismal film full of garish visuals …

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‘Diana Dors screamed about George Best while rubbing herself against a young man’: how we made Deep End

Post Views: 2 ‘Diana Dors screamed about George Best while rubbing herself against a young man’: how we made Deep End Sex symbol power … Diana Dors and John Moulder-Brown in the 1970 film. Photograph: BFI ‘A friend,’ recalls director Jerzy Skolimowski, ‘told me a story about a diamond that …

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Three ways Robert Downey Jr’s Vertigo might not be Hollywood’s stupidest ever idea

Post Views: 1 Three ways Robert Downey Jr’s Vertigo might not be Hollywood’s stupidest ever idea But who will play Kim Novak? … James Stewart and Novak in Vertigo, 1958. Photograph: Paramount/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller is an acknowledged classic, meaning Downey Jr has a few options. I say go nuclear …

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review – Murakami’s surreal tales around a Tokyo earthquake

Post Views: 1 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review – Murakami’s surreal tales around a Tokyo earthquake The elusive essence of Murakami … Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Film The seductively quirky sad-serious tone of the author is evident as a constellation of characters try and save the city – including a …

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The Gallery review – bloody interactive treatise on post-Brexit Britain

Post Views: 9 The Gallery review – bloody interactive treatise on post-Brexit Britain Trenchant, thoughtful … Anna Popplewell in The Gallery Viewers can choose the outcome of the characters in this cleverly assembled art-world thriller available on PC, console and your local screen Interactive cinema has existed since the 1967 Czech …

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Drømmeland review – hermit and his smartphone in the Norwegian wilderness

Post Views: 10 Drømmeland review – hermit and his smartphone in the Norwegian wilderness Gawking at its subject … Drømmeland Drømmeland review – hermit and his smartphone in the Norwegian wilderness This voyeuristic account of an eccentric who broadcasts himself hunting naked never meaningfully addresses his paradoxical existence Having resolved …

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‘A tough time – but so exciting’: cult film-maker Vivienne Dick on New York’s post-punk explosion

Post Views: 10 ‘A tough time – but so exciting’: cult film-maker Vivienne Dick on New York’s post-punk explosion A lost New York … Pat Place in She Had Her Gun All Ready, with the World Trade Center behind. Photograph: Vivienne Dick She fled rural Ireland and hit the Big Apple …

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