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Movie & TV reviews by Anne Brodie, BFCA BTJA AWFJ TFCA FIPRESCI X-Men Logan and Professor X – Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart – are at the end of their ropes in this latest dark, end days actioner meant as a sequel to 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and 2013’s The Wolverine. It’s not …
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Holodomor, the intentional starvation of up at 7 million Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933 only came to light in 1991. Stalin manufactured a policy of famine in the country known as “Europe’s breadbasket” as a genocide so Russia could easily take over the resources rich country. Only when a western …
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And it wasn’t even a movie plot. It was real life, the Show of Shows dedicated to movies that became somehow more entertaining than any movie. The 89th Academy Awards broadcast has taken its place as one of the most stunning ceremonies in its broadcast history. The Gaffe of …
by @annebrodie BFCA BTJA AWFJ TFCA FIPRESCI A United Kingdom is an ironic title for this film about Britain’s shame in dealing with “the race question” in the late forties. Interracial marriages were taboo in the UK and the US but were absolutely illegal in South Africa, then known as Rhodesia. …
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by @annebrodie BFCA BTJA AWFJ TFCA FIPRESCI Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is one of the most anticipated films of 2017. Starring Emma Watson as Belle and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens as The Beast (if you can imagine that!). It’s the twelfth filmed version of the French classic fairy tale which …
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