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Darling (1965) The New Morality of the 1960s
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In the Lost Lands (2025) A refreshingly middling blast from the past

Simon Ramshaw 11/06/2025
In the Lost Lands (2025) A refreshingly middling blast from the past

Nostalgia can hit you when you least expect it. Just when you’re feeling a lull with the state of cinema, where long-running brands seem to be running shorter and shorter, when genres grow as tired as your heavy eyes, along can come a blast from the past to remind you […]

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Andor Season 2 (2025) Round-up: Star Wars’ hard-to-swallow epic is just what fans needed

Simon Ramshaw 21/05/2025
Andor Season 2 (2025) Round-up: Star Wars’ hard-to-swallow epic is just what fans needed

CONTAINS SPOILERS For once in their lives, Star Wars fans have a right to be upset. By the time any franchise devotees reach the end of Tony Gilroy’s ground-level Rebellion drama Andor, there’s a strong possibility they’ll feel more ashen than when they saw Princess Leia Mary Poppins herself back to safety in The […]

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The End (2025) Opening night at the end of the world in barmy musical morality tale

Simon Ramshaw 04/04/2025
The End (2025) Opening night at the end of the world in barmy musical morality tale

It’s opening night at the end of the world, and rehearsals for the final curtain are getting shaky, much as they were in Joshua Oppenheimer’s unforgettably bold documentary features. His startling Indonesian genocide diptych (The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence) depicted some alarming remembrances of one of […]

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A Samurai in Time (2023) (Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025)

Simon Ramshaw 02/04/2025
A Samurai in Time (2023) (Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025)

Is there such a thing as a timeless genre? The interest of an audience in a particular mode of storytelling always has a shelf life, fickly ebbing and flowing once a saturation point is reached. But what does that moment look like, where tastes change and affection for times gone […]

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What Happened Was… (1994) Worst first date ever, or worst date EVER?

Simon Ramshaw 16/03/2025
What Happened Was… (1994) Worst first date ever, or worst date EVER?

The hulking figure of Tom Noonan casts a deceptive shadow. The gangly character actor who found fame in films by Michaels Cimino and Mann (most notably the latter in Manhunter) is a distinctive yet understated presence, sizing up at an impressive 6ft 5in and possessing some memorably melancholy eyes; even from […]

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The Monkey (2025) A morbid, laugh-through-the-pain psycho-comedy 

Simon Ramshaw 21/02/2025
The Monkey (2025) A morbid, laugh-through-the-pain psycho-comedy 

There is no one else in the business making movies as a substitute for therapy quite like Osgood Perkins. While he delighted summer audiences with a dark trip into serial killer mayhem with last year’s most profitable independent movie (Longlegs), it was importantly wrapped up in personal issues and concerns […]

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Sunray: Fallen Soldier (2025): IRL RMCs take easy targets in exploitation actioner

Simon Ramshaw 28/01/2025 1
Sunray: Fallen Soldier (2025): IRL RMCs take easy targets in exploitation actioner

“Alright troops, here’s the mission. We’re on home turf, but things are going to get gritty and dirty; we’re storming warehouses, derelict buildings, maybe even a drug den or two. The odds will be against us: they’ve got the numbers, but we’ve got the know-how to make this work. Our […]

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Critters: A Four Course Feast! (1986-1992) – Ample pickings of cinema’s forgotten freaks

Simon Ramshaw 03/12/2024
Critters: A Four Course Feast! (1986-1992) – Ample pickings of cinema’s forgotten freaks

A physical media habit can be a bit like gorging yourself on junk food. Whenever a label like Arrow Video offers up a curated bunch of greasy, low-brow, nostalgic pleasures, it’s tough not to water at the mouth like a gibbering animal with the mere thought of adding a franchise […]

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Tank Girl (1995) Misunderstood 90s disaster plays brilliantly thirty years later

Simon Ramshaw 25/11/2024
Tank Girl (1995) Misunderstood 90s disaster plays brilliantly thirty years later

The 4D experience of Rachel Talalay’s Tank Girl isn’t exactly something to recommend. Imagine waking up in the morning, attempting to perform one’s first evacuation (a Number One, thankfully) and ablution of the day, only to discover the water supply of your entire local area is off. Then find yourself […]

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Black Tuesday (1954) Roughed-up noir gem with a dark shadow for a soul

Simon Ramshaw 18/11/2024
Black Tuesday (1954) Roughed-up noir gem with a dark shadow for a soul

The tagline of Hugo Fregonese’s Black Tuesday thunderously announces itself as “the most ruthless Robinson of all time!”, putting its rough-and-ready leading man Edward G. Robinson front and centre of the action. And that’s certainly true; today, not even the cumulative power of Tim Robinson’s screaming sketch comedy oeuvre or […]

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