Author: Juliette Howard
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Venice Film Festival: The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) – Slow burn gets lost between traditional period piece and delirious speculative drama
Amanda Seyfried’s most significant role since Mank comes in the form of Mona Fastvold’s epic The Testament of…
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Venice Film Festival: The Smashing Machine (2025) – Benny Safdie’s latest lacks a punch despite its excellent performances
For most of his career, Dwayne Johnson has been hanging from the edge of CGI buildings, fighting flora…
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Together (2025) – Alison Brie and Dave Franco are inseparable in entertaining comedy horror
Real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco star in this gruelling horror comedy about a couple who, after…
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The Life of Chuck (2024) – Mike Flanagan drops horror for drama in syrupy tale of the meaning of life
Stephen King adaptations are showing no signs of slowing down as The Life of Chuck finally hits the…
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Materialists (2025) – Celine Song’s depiction of modern dating is refreshingly truthful
A series of faces file past the screen, one after the other stating their criteria for the perfect…
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EIFF: Little Trouble Girls (2025) – Director Urška Djukić talks the importance of music, repression and shame in a young girl’s life, and working instinctively
Following her Cesar win for best animated short with her documentary Granny’s Sexual Life, Urška Djukić gives us…
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Weapons (2025) – Superbly entertaining gore fest is as scary as it is funny
With Weapons, Zach Cregger cements himself as one to watch within the masters of horror bracket – a…
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EIFF: On The Sea (2025) – Actors Lorne MacFadyen and Barry Ward talk hidden details, masculinity and friendships made along the way
With On The Sea, novelist turned director Helen Walsh has created something truly special – the tale of…
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EIFF: Walk With Me (2024) – Director Heidi Levitt discusses working with her family, letting herself create and the need for a movement to help Alzheimer patients and their caregivers
In a particularly challenging scene of Heidi Levitt’s Walk With Me, the director has lost her husband in…
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EIFF: Best Boy (2025) – Director Jesse Noah Klein talks family trauma, the importance of language and exploring drama through a comic lens
Writer/director Jesse Noah Klein’s Best Boy opens with a funeral – the patriarch of the Seligmans is dead,…
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EIFF: Concessions (2025) – Director Mas Bouzidi talks movie theatres, influences and working with his hero, the late Michael Madsen
It’s a Saturday, and The Royal Alamo, a beloved independent movie theatre, is closing after 52 years. From…
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EIFF: Zodiac Killer Project (2025) – Director Charlie Shackleton discusses our fascination with the macabre, spontaneity and how failure can be turned into creativity
Charlie Shackleton was halfway through planning his Zodiac Killer documentary when the rights to the source material fell…
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The Salt Path controversy – a step too far?
A book turned film has been on my mind a lot recently – The Salt Path, by Raynor…
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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) – fun and action-packed latest instalment without any of the depth
In the latest addition to the Jurassic Park/World franchise, the likes of Sam Neill and Bryce Dallas Howard…
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Die Akademie (2024) – an entertaining female Whiplash with little of the stakes
Maja Bons is excellent as budding and naïve artist Jojo in Camilla Guttner’s Die Akademie, a surreal tale…
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28 Years Later (2025) – Danny Boyle’s tense third instalment does too much all at once
Six months ago, one of the most frightening trailers to ever grace screens dropped to mass – apocalyptic…
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Good One (2024) – Lily Collias walks a winding path in India Donaldson’s indie full of complicated emotions
There are always two types of hikers – those who know how to pack peanut butter and those…
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The Salt Path (2024) – unremarkable film for what is a truly remarkable story
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake meets Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild in this moving saga of a couple who, evicted…
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I finally watched Schindler’s List (1993)
The idea you make of a film before watching it has always been a strange concept – a…
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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) – Wes Anderson bounces back with whimsical tale of a father and daughter bonding over illegal affairs
Are Wes Anderson’s films loved because of the way they look or because of the stories they tell?…
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