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She Said book review: Harvey Weinstein’s downfall is just the beginning of the story
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s engrossing memoir of how they broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal for the New York Times is not just an insidious history of harassment; it’s also a thrilling procedural and fable about our relationship to power, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 19 November 2019 -
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Portrait of some ladies on fire: the inaugural Women Under the Influence Goes IdyllWILD festival
Now the home of a film festival run by and for women, California’s Idyllwild is no longer just a town with a golden retriever for its mayor, reports Leonie Cooper.
Monday 18 November 2019 -
The Report review: Adam Driver uncovers shadowy CIA malpractice
Adam Driver exposes unpalatable goings-on at the heart of American power in this adept war-on-terror reworking of the paranoid investigative thriller, writes Trevor Johnston.
Friday 15 November 2019 -
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Little Monsters review: Lupita Nyong’o wins this school-trip Aussie zombie comedy
Nyong’o’s perky teacher and Alexander England’s scruffy man-child must protect a class of children from the ghoulish undead in Abe Forsythe’s sweet gross-out splatter-fest, writes Kim Newman.
Friday 15 November 2019 -
The Good Liar review: Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen play cat-and-mouse
Ian McKellen’s debonair conman may have met his match in Helen Mirren’s super-smart widow, but the convoluted script detracts from the pleasure of these two greats on screen together for the first time, writes Philip Kemp.
Thursday 14 November 2019 -
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Meeting Gorbachev review: Werner Herzog misses the boat
Herzog takes tea with the erstwhile Soviet reformist leader, but insights are scanty, says Demetrios Matheou.
Wednesday 13 November 2019 -
“This is confidential material. Where did you get it?” Frederic Raphael looks back at Eyes Wide Shut
Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut co-writer recalls a mix-up with the great director over a fake FBI dossier.
Wednesday 13 November 2019 -
Animistic Apparatus: cinema for the spirits
From Thailand to Berwick-Upon-Tweed, a group of artists are curating outdoor film screenings for non-human audiences: projecting movies in the black of night to the natural, and supernatural, world, writes Matt Turner.
Wednesday 13 November 2019 -
Documentary rides the storm at Yamagata 2019
Typhoon Hagibis reminded the pilgrims at this intimate and unpretentious documentary festival of the problems of climate, land and migration battering the wider world – and the films seemed to soar with the challenge, writes Becca Voelcker.
Tuesday 12 November 2019 -
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All that glitters: the restless art of the movie musical
Often dismissed as cosy and conventional, the film musical has actually been a defiantly radical form since its very beginnings, embracing difficult subjects and championing diversity as it shatters traditional narrative structures with its extravagant experimental spectacles, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 12 November 2019
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