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Conclave Review

When one hears the phrase “Catholic Church thriller,” I suspect one thinks immediately of something like a Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code-type film, with dead bodies of Cardinals appearing in fountains in Rome and potentially blasphemous revelations about Catholic Dogma. Conclave, a new film being marketed as a thriller (and adapted from Thomas Harris’ novel of […]

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Transformers One Review

It has been 39 years since the Transformers series made its cinematic debut with The Transformers: The Movie. Transformers One sees everyone’s favourite Autobots and Decepticons have their first cinematic animated adventure since the 1980s. Orion Pax (Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Brian Tyree Henry) are lowly miner bots who can’t transform. Even though the pair […]

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Megalopolis Review

Megalopolis was a film that was 40 years in the making, a passion project that saw Francis Ford Coppola return to filmmaking for the first time in 13 years. New Rome is a city on the edge. Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito) is unpopular and in conflict with Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), an architect and […]

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Lee Review

Lee Miller was a war photographer who worked for Vogue during the Second World War. Her story gets put to screen with Kate Winslet starring as this remarkable woman and serving as one of the film’s producers. In 1938, Lee Miller was an ex-model and socialite who was a part of the artistic scene in […]