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Elsinore Review

There’s nothing all that suspenseful about the action within Elsinore. That’s the way of things when you’re watching a biopic that turns on a singular event: actor Ian Charleson (Andrew Scott) is determined to portray Hamlet on the stage of the National Theatre before he dies of AIDS. It really happened, it was – by all […]

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The Liberation Review

The Liberation is a frustrating film. It had a series of truly spectacular performances to anchor the complex themes of the story – a story that is based on writer-director Guy Nattiv’s own grandmother’s life story. But it also has an incredibly unsatisfying ending – not unsatisfying in what happens in the film’s final fifteen […]

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Clayface Review

Clayface is the third film in the DCU and the most unexpected film so far due to it being an origins story about a Batman villain. Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) is a rising star in Coast City, an actor who had worked his way out of Gotham City’s roughest district. His acting career reaches […]

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The Debut Review

Something happened at my screening of The Debut that has never happened at a film I’ve been at before. Following an absolute stunner of a speech from Julianne Moore’s Mona Friedman (a sequence that all but assures Moore is going to get a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar this year, if not start the race […]