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Couch Potato Pickings | Vera Drake – this film makes me grimace

Mike Leigh films have been the subject of my daily pickings this week. Have you noticed? He’s one of my fave directors, so, in the lead up to the release of his new film Another Year on Friday, I’m looking … Continue reading

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Why do I have mixed feelings about this Film Festival?

Calling all movie-loving Londoners! Are you going to the exciting film festival that’s opening on the South Bank today? Taking place at the BFI Southbank, this colourful movie gala, apparently the UK’s third largest film festival, will be showcasing hundreds … Continue reading

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The Best view |Comrades: A Lanternist’s Account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs

Scottish director Bill Douglas was one of the most gifted and original filmmakers British cinema has produced, yet nearly two decades after his tragically premature death at the age of 57 in 1991, his work still does not have the … Continue reading

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