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After the life-changing and unforgettable Let Me Die a Woman, David Flint of the Strange Things Are Happening website chose a far more haunting and less borderline-offensive feature for his next screening as part of the Scalarama festival. Jean Rollin’s La rose de fer (The Iron Rose) from 1973 is a slight tale, but its...

Luc Besson’s Lucy is a modern day sci-fi movie, reminiscent of 2011’s Limitless but with Scarlett Johansson as the puissant protagonist. Lucy is an innocent victim, forcefully caught up in the international drug smuggling game, co-ordinated by violent mobster Mr. Jang (Choi Min-sik). However, the smuggle does not go smoothly,...

Much like The Full Monty or Billy Elliot, the tone and depth of Pride is simplistic in its historical analysis and triumphalist in its conclusions, but it is a well-crafted, beautifully acted, infectiously heartwarming tale, and it works a treat. It’s 1984 and the Miner’s Strike is in full...

Two Days, One Night concerns the efforts of a female factory worker, recovering from a bout of depression, as she tries to persuade her colleagues to vote to keep her job. There is, however, one major obstacle – her boss has offered everyone else a 1000€ bonus in the...

As Above, So Below teaches us that if ever you find yourself in the catacombs of Paris and you think you know a mystical object is hidden down a scary secret passageway, it’s probably best to leave it… unless you’re a treasure hunting expert-in-practically-everything, like Scarlet Marlowe (the brilliant...

Throughout August, the BFI has organised nationwide screenings of this assorted collection of serials, comedies, songs, and newsreels from 1914 and allowing people with the inclination but without the opportunity to get a taste of what cinema was like a hundred years ago when film as an industry and a...

Hector (Simon Pegg) is a psychiatrist whose life is ordered and organised to a precise pinnacle by himself, his job, and his loving, mothering girlfriend (Rosamund Pike). His life is perfectly content and adequate, but Hector begins to wonder whether he is really happy and, indeed, whether any of...