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Signature Move review: Jennifer Reeder revives the 90s’ New Queer Cinema
An amateur-wrestler lawyer navigates love, family and coming out in this heartfelt and cleverly constructed multicultural queer romance, writes Sophie Mayer.
Tuesday 21 March 2017 -
From the Magazine
A world beyond Bollywood: surveying the new Indian cinema
The extraordinary richness and diversity of India’s movies, not least from its booming independent sector, is the secret to their success, says Meenakshi Shedde.
Tuesday 21 March 2017 -
The internationalism of P.K. Nair, the celluloid man
The great film preservationist saved thousands of films, not just for India but for the whole world. Shruti Narayanswamy and Tim Concannon one of his final interviews, his mission was to save everything, keep everything and screen everything, write Shruti Narayanswamy and Tim Concannon.
Tuesday 21 March 2017 -
Different for Girls: a lesbian series that dramatises sex and life
Jacquie Lawrence’s sexy lesbian La Ronde, set in and out of the households of south-west London, has been brought to life by Campbell X’s direction, and no one dies. Is that why it isn’t on TV, asks Sophie Mayer?
Friday 17 March 2017 -
Small Town: childhood memories of lost innocence in this Golden Bear-winning short
On the evidence of this hazy, surreal gem, Diogo Costa Amarante is a director to watch, writes Laurence Boyce.
Thursday 16 March 2017 -
Get Out review: a surreal satire of racial tension
Jordan Peele’s debut film is a brilliantly inventive horror that skewers the insecurities and injustices of modern America, says Trevor Johnston.
Thursday 16 March 2017 -
From the Magazine
Beauty and the Beast review: a magnificent monster with no teeth
Emma Watson’s shy Belle meets Dan Stevens’s sophisticated Beast in a lavish, respectful update of the 1991 animated film – but what is the point, asks Kate Stables?
Thursday 16 March 2017 -
From the Magazine
Kong: Skull Island review – a roaring pulp mash-up
Following 2014’s Godzilla, Round Two of a likely Monster Cinematic Universe Redux pitches its over-specced human cast into a 1973-period sally that holds its own with any number of pulp footnotes Kim Newman can name.
Friday 10 March 2017 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Elle – far deeper (and more disquieting) than a rape-revenge thriller
Isabel Huppert’s darkly defiant bourgeois renegade turns the tables on her rapist in Paul Verhoeven’s masterfully twisted meditation on human bondage, write Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López.
Friday 10 March 2017 -
From the Magazine
Hooray for Jeni LeGon: the Hollywood pioneer who “danced like a boy”
Hollywood’s ingrained racism deprived Jeni LeGon of a great dance career – an emblematic injustice that’s both recounted and countered in Zadie Smith’s brilliant new novel Swing Time, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Wednesday 8 March 2017
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