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Evan Birch (Guy Pearce) teaches philosophy at the local college and specialises in linguistics – the art of saying, or not saying, what one means by carefully choosing words. He has a reputation as a strong but diffident academic, the kind that is smart but not always easy to...
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It’s 1972 and like almost any other time in its existence, Beirut is a tinderbox of conflicting agendas often held together by hope, anger and pragmatic alliances against other enemies. Mason Skiles (John Hamm) is a fast-talking diplomat, a respected negotiator and mover and shaker of legendary ability who...
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What do you do when you’ve just wiped out half the universe? That might be the problem facing directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who helmed Avengers: Infinity War to record-breaking numbers earlier this year. The answer is that you look to projects that provide drama on an intense but...
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The island of Isla Nubar is about to be destroyed by volcanic activity and despite pressure to save the surviving dinosaurs, the world seems to have decided that nature is putting right what man got wrong and that the creatures will be allowed to perish. That sits perfectly well...
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The Last of Us, released in 2016, was a complex and immersive PS4 game that dealt with a near-future urban wasteland full of dangerous gangs and infected half-humans. Joel, a resistance fighter who lost his daughter in the earliest days of the outbreak years before, is given the reluctant...
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Though the film will contain the requisite robotwar angle with plenty of action, there’s a certain sense from the first trailer for Transformers spin-off Bumblebee that things might be a little more subdued than the main movies to date. Then again, that’s not saying much as the main Michael...
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Lara Croft grew up on a vast estate with all the benefits that could offer – except a father who was consistently off on business-trips in the four corners of the world. Seven years ago, Richard Croft (Samuel West) vanished on such an expedition and the young woman Lara...
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Han is a young man with a plan – several in fact – and all of them involve he and his companion Qi’ra getting off the backward planet of Correlia. But plans don’t always work out and though the skilled but errant flyboy manages to get off-world he’s forced...
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Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) daughter was murdered seven months ago. Not just murdered, but raped and burned and left on the side of a country road. The police haven’t found her killer and however horrific the crime, the town of Ebbing has slowly moved on. But Mildred can’t and...
Evan Birch (Guy Pearce) teaches philosophy at the local college and specialises in linguistics – the art of saying, or not saying, what one means by carefully choosing words. He has a reputation as a strong but diffident academic, the kind that is smart but not always easy to...
It’s 1972 and like almost any other time in its existence, Beirut is a tinderbox of conflicting agendas often held together by hope, anger and pragmatic alliances against other enemies. Mason Skiles (John Hamm) is a fast-talking diplomat, a respected negotiator and mover and shaker of legendary ability who...
What do you do when you’ve just wiped out half the universe? That might be the problem facing directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who helmed Avengers: Infinity War to record-breaking numbers earlier this year. The answer is that you look to projects that provide drama on an intense but...
The island of Isla Nubar is about to be destroyed by volcanic activity and despite pressure to save the surviving dinosaurs, the world seems to have decided that nature is putting right what man got wrong and that the creatures will be allowed to perish. That sits perfectly well...
The Last of Us, released in 2016, was a complex and immersive PS4 game that dealt with a near-future urban wasteland full of dangerous gangs and infected half-humans. Joel, a resistance fighter who lost his daughter in the earliest days of the outbreak years before, is given the reluctant...
Though the film will contain the requisite robotwar angle with plenty of action, there’s a certain sense from the first trailer for Transformers spin-off Bumblebee that things might be a little more subdued than the main movies to date. Then again, that’s not saying much as the main Michael...
Lara Croft grew up on a vast estate with all the benefits that could offer – except a father who was consistently off on business-trips in the four corners of the world. Seven years ago, Richard Croft (Samuel West) vanished on such an expedition and the young woman Lara...
Han is a young man with a plan – several in fact – and all of them involve he and his companion Qi’ra getting off the backward planet of Correlia. But plans don’t always work out and though the skilled but errant flyboy manages to get off-world he’s forced...
Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) daughter was murdered seven months ago. Not just murdered, but raped and burned and left on the side of a country road. The police haven’t found her killer and however horrific the crime, the town of Ebbing has slowly moved on. But Mildred can’t and...
