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Champions Review

Based on a Spanish film, Champions is a sports comedy-drama from one half of the Farrelly Brothers. Marcus Marakovich (Woody Harrelson) is a basketball coach who is tactically brilliant but with poor man-management skills. He gets fired from his job with the Iowa Stallions after getting into a fight with his boss and things become worse for him after a drink-driving […]

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A Man Called Otto Review

A Man Called Otto is a remake of the Swedish comedy-drama A Man Called Ove. The American version sees Tom Hanks as the curmudgeon lead character. Otto (Hanks) is a widower who’s forced to take early retirement. He has a reputation as being a grumpy and confrontational man who enforces his strict standards on his neighbours. However, […]

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Hit the Road Review

Hit the Road is an Iranian road film that won plaudits at the Cannes and London film festivals. Farid (Amin Simiar) plans to cross the Iranian-Turkish border and seek a better life abroad. His mother (Pantea Panahiha) does not want Farid to make the trip alone and his father, Khosro (Hassan Madjooni) had made the arrangements […]

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The Duke Review

The Duke is a comedy-drama about how one man used the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a way to enact social change in 1960s Britain. Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent) is a taxi driver in Newcastle and a political campaigner with a confrontational personality. Kempton’s campaigning ways lead to him getting imprisoned for not […]