ENGLISH BEAUTY Creatively unfulfilled and longing to return to The City that Never Sleeps, middle-aged husband, father, and high-school music teacher, Keith Reynolds (Guy Pearce) spends his days growing ever more disillusioned with his trite suburban lifestyle in upstate New York. Brandishing a salt and pepper beard that harkens back to his days as a […]
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INTO THE WILD Trapped beneath the roofs of their domineering parents’ homes and longing for the freedom of adulthood, high school buddies, Joe, Patrick and Biaggio, decide to cut out the middle man (in this case, Father Time) and build themselves a makeshift home in the woods – a tangible yet mythical space in which […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter EYE OF THE TYPIST Starring Belgian actress Déborah François (L’Enfant), alongside Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), Populaire tells the charming and romantic tale of Rose, a young woman from “nowheresville” who under the tutelage of her new boss Louis attempts to become the fastest touch-typist in the […]
Read MoreWords: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. Pieced together solely from footage sourced from the Soviet film archives, Sergei Loznitsa’s collection of documentaries, Blockade, Revue, and Landscape, provides a largely unseen portrait of Russia’s tumultuous and often deeply tragic journey through the 20th Century. Retrospectively the key events which have marked the vast […]
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THE MEMORY REMAINS Spanning two decades and focusing upon numerous intricately crafted characters, The Place Beyond the Pines is a brave, bold and wildly beautiful picture show offering a defiant lesson in how to fashion twenty-first century iconography. Reuniting Derek Cianfrance and leading man Ryan Gosling, the pair pick up where they left off with […]
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