TWIGGY: INSPIRATIONAL ICON

 

There’s a surprising encounter with Woody Allen in the fascinating feature documentary TWIGGY, an intimate, star-studded dive into the birth of an icon, and everything that followed.

Woody is being a bit of a smart arse asking the fashion

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DVD GIVEAWAY : HARRY WILD SEASON 4

The detective comedy-drama HARRY WILD is back for a fourth season to be released on DVD on December 3, 2025. See Harry and Fergus take on their most perilous and deeply entangled cases yet in what Parade calls “a runway …

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NUREMBERG : A SEARING PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA

James Vanderbilt’s NUREMBERG  turns one of history’s most documented trials into a nervy psychological two-step. Working from Jack El-Hai’s book THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST,  the screenwriter  finds focus in holding cells where Rami Malek’s Douglas Kelly, a young, American …

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WICKED : FOR GOOD : GOOD BUT INFERIOR TO THE FIRST

After being villainized by The Wizard of Oz (played again by Jeff Goldblum) for discovering his true nature, Elphaba (played again by Cynthia Erivo) continues her crusade to free the now mute animal civilisation but must do it alone since …

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BUSHIDO: THE GO TO GO GUY

The backbone of Japanese cinema is arguably the Samuari saga and this year’s Japanese Film Festival has a fascinating take on the genre.

A little The Crucible a little bit The Merchant of Venice, a little bit Casino Royale, BUSHIDO

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KOKUHO: FLAGSHIP OF THE JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL

Epic, operatic, Kabuki infused spectacle, KOKUHO is a vision splendid.

At nearly three hours long, it is a testament to the film’s visual beauty and dramatic depth that it never fails to fascinate.

Beginning on New Year’s Day, 1964 in

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CHRISTMAS KARMA: BAH HUMBUG

Christmas is a con!” says the subcontinental Scrooge, Mr Sood, in Gurinder Chadha’s CHRISTMAS KARMA, a bowdlerised Bollywood-inspired reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol.

Couldn’t agree more and this picture is part of the problem.

Swimming

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MAGIC FARM: NOW STREAMING

 

Chloë Sevigny plays a perplexed producer of guerrilla style docos in Amalia Ulman’s absurdist comedy Magic Farm.

Yanks tank as a misguided American documentary crew working for a mini mogul media company led by Simon Rex’s character, Dave, travel

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