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Buona sera, dear readers! With the awards doled out and festivities winding down, it’s time to look back at another top-notch year at the Venice Film Festival. Boasting a stacked programme of mouth-watering premieres, the…

Obsessed loners taking on giant corporations make for riveting cinema, with the premise providing a perfect opportunity to highlight grave injustice. This time the loner is lawyer Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), the corporation is none other…

The police procedural drama film has been around since the first motion-picture camera was invented. From Dirty Harry to TV’s The Bill right up to 2017’s Patriot’s Day the police procedural has always followed a formula. In March 2007…

I once found myself engaged in a lively debate, which was centred upon that perplexing question of why cinema exists and what purpose does it serve. My friend argued, vehemently, that films exist purely to entertain, citing the likes of The…

''If it takes a village to raise a child it takes a village to abuse one''. This is one of the lines delivered by an excellent cast in this recounting of a newspaper team uncovering child abuse in the Catholic church that is…

Foxcatcher  (2014) Dir. Bennet Miller I finally got around to watching Foxcatcher... in fact I was torn between seeing this and Birdman, however my inability to correctly read a cinema listing schedule determined that my evening would…

Foxcatcher Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Sienna Miller I can safely say that the moment before I watched the first trailer for Foxcatcher I knew absolutely nothing about the…