Goodbye Lenin! and The Lives of Others
Set in East Berlin in 1989, Goodbye Lenin! is the story of woman (Katrin Sass) who wakes up from eight months in a coma, having completely missed the fall of […]
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LSO: Also Sprach Zarathustra and Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
In this edition of the Barbican’s Half Six Fix series, the London Symphony Orchestra play two iconic and highly influential pieces from the 1890s, Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and […]
The Grinch
Liberal icon the Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) valiantly continues the war on Christmas by taking on Whoville, the Christmassiest town south of Lapland, home to the obsessively festive Whos. Their insufferable […]
Batman Returns
The follow-up to Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman takes a turn for the macabre, as lead villain The Penguin (Danny DeVito), a deformed creature raised in the sewer, runs for mayor in Gotham, […]
Widows
Widows follows a group of women whose criminal husbands are killed in a police shootout after a heist. As their deceased spouses ill-gotten financial gains are reclaimed they are left […]
Being There
Peter Sellers plays Chance, a dim-witted, TV obsessed man who doesn’t read, yet somehow finds his way to the heart of American politics. But unlike Donald Trump he is also […]
First Man
Ryan Gosling takes flight to outer space as Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. We recently reviewed Bohemian Rhapsody, in which every shortcut common to biographical films was […]
Bohemian Rhapsody
The long-awaited biopic of the Queen front man finally makes its way onto our screens, charting the journey of Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) from the formation of Queen to their […]
Waterloo
This is the first and last instalment in our review series covering films named after tube stations (because I’m not watching Paddington). It focuses on irritable French Emperor Napoleon and […]
A Star is Born
Lady Gaga takes on a role previously played by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand as Ally, a young woman with an incredible voice, who is discovered by Jackson (Bradley Cooper) […]
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