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  • Sirāt (2025) – in the desert no one will hear you scream

    Sirāt (2025) – in the desert no one will hear you scream

    Juliette Howard

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    November 30, 2025

    Move over Fury Road, an even crazier desert film has hailed the big screen in the form of…

  • Pillion (2025) – Harry Lighton brings the new genre “dom-com” to light

    Pillion (2025) – Harry Lighton brings the new genre “dom-com” to light

    Juliette Howard

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    November 21, 2025

    Here is a film that does not shy away from the most personal and intimate aspects of relationships…

  • I Swear (2025) – Kirk Jones’ biographical drama about a man with Tourette’s syndrome is a delightful celebration of difference

    I Swear (2025) – Kirk Jones’ biographical drama about a man with Tourette’s syndrome is a delightful celebration of difference

    Juliette Howard

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    November 17, 2025

    Rare are the films that have depicted Tourette’s, and even rarer are those who have depicted it with…

  • One Battle After Another (2025) – Paul Thomas Anderson’s saga is a slog – but a strangely enjoyable one

    One Battle After Another (2025) – Paul Thomas Anderson’s saga is a slog – but a strangely enjoyable one

    Juliette Howard

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    November 14, 2025

    Leonardo DiCaprio stuns as a revolutionary turned paranoid stoner in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, an…

  • An honest review of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein – as someone who specialised in it at university

    An honest review of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein – as someone who specialised in it at university

    Juliette Howard

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    November 7, 2025

    In an interview with El Mundo America to promote his new film Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro stated that…

  • LFF: High Wire (2025) – Director Calif Chong talks the joys of the circus, familial expectations and writing a comedy for the British Chinese community

    LFF: High Wire (2025) – Director Calif Chong talks the joys of the circus, familial expectations and writing a comedy for the British Chinese community

    Juliette Howard

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    November 5, 2025

    Go-wing is at a loss with her life – expected by her father to become a successful lawyer,…

  • LFF: Die My Love (2025) – Jennifer Lawrence goes nuts in Lynne Ramsay’s dark relationship drama

    LFF: Die My Love (2025) – Jennifer Lawrence goes nuts in Lynne Ramsay’s dark relationship drama

    Juliette Howard

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    November 2, 2025

    Jennifer Lawrence is madness incarnate in Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, a dark fairytale of motherhood, marriage and…

  • LFF: Roofman (2025) – Channing Tatum is the perfect polite criminal in Derek Cianfrance’s dramedy based on real events

    LFF: Roofman (2025) – Channing Tatum is the perfect polite criminal in Derek Cianfrance’s dramedy based on real events

    Juliette Howard

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    October 29, 2025

    Channing Tatum reconnects with his inner child – and criminal – in this kooky dramedy based on one…

  • LFF: Is This Thing On? (2025) – Will Arnett is a hoot in Bradley Cooper’s romcom drama about messy marriages

    LFF: Is This Thing On? (2025) – Will Arnett is a hoot in Bradley Cooper’s romcom drama about messy marriages

    Juliette Howard

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    October 26, 2025

    Bradley Cooper shows that there’s more to his directing chops than simply painting himself as a brilliant-but-flawed musician…

  • LFF: The Choral (2025) – Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett’s latest collaboration is perfect Sunday afternoon viewing

    LFF: The Choral (2025) – Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett’s latest collaboration is perfect Sunday afternoon viewing

    Juliette Howard

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    October 21, 2025

    Ralph Fiennes leads a fine ensemble in Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett’s collaboration The Choral, an aptly named…

  • LFF: Love Me Tender (2025) – Vicki Krieps is magnetic in adaptation of Constance Debré’s scandalous novel about a woman’s fight for custody

    LFF: Love Me Tender (2025) – Vicki Krieps is magnetic in adaptation of Constance Debré’s scandalous novel about a woman’s fight for custody

    Juliette Howard

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    October 19, 2025

    Constance Debré’s scandalous novel about a woman’s fight for custody of her son is brought to the big…

  • LFF: Jay Kelly (2025) – George Clooney leads road-trip fiasco in Noah Baumbach’s ode to the mid-life crisis

    LFF: Jay Kelly (2025) – George Clooney leads road-trip fiasco in Noah Baumbach’s ode to the mid-life crisis

    Juliette Howard

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    October 18, 2025

    George Clooney plays a parallel universe, cardboard cutout of himself in Noah Baumbach’s eponymous Jay Kelly, the fantastical…

  • LFF: After The Hunt (2025) – Luca Guadagnino’s psychological thriller about a campus sexual assault feels out of sorts

    LFF: After The Hunt (2025) – Luca Guadagnino’s psychological thriller about a campus sexual assault feels out of sorts

    Juliette Howard

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    October 17, 2025

    No one does horny quite like Luca Guadagnino. Challengers, Call Me By Your Name, Queer – the man…

  • LFF: Bugonia (2025) – Yorgos Lanthimos’ abduction thriller is a masterclass in storytelling

    LFF: Bugonia (2025) – Yorgos Lanthimos’ abduction thriller is a masterclass in storytelling

    Juliette Howard

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    October 17, 2025

    Yorgos Lanthimos shows no signs of slowing down with his latest nightmare Bugonia, a strangely comical and infinitely…

  • LFF: Fwends (2025) – Sophie Somerville talks guerilla-style filmmaking, improvisation and the importance of connection in today’s world

    LFF: Fwends (2025) – Sophie Somerville talks guerilla-style filmmaking, improvisation and the importance of connection in today’s world

    Juliette Howard

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    October 16, 2025

    In Sophie Somerville’s Fwends, two friends reunite one weekend and walk the streets of Melbourne, catching up on…


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