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Released: 29 September (in cinemas) Certificate: 18 Director: Kevin Greutert Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnove Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Renata Vaca, Joshua Okamoto, Octavio Hinojosa, Paulette Hernandez Distributor: Lionsgate Running Time: 118 mins It’s nearly 20 years since James Wan’s Saw (2004) kicked off an unlikely franchise, elevating familiar bit player Tobin Bell to
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Author: Em X. Liu Publisher: Solaris Price: £16.99 In The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu, Hayden Lichfield’s world shatters when he discovers his father has been murdered and crucial camera logs in their lab have been deleted. The motive is clear: the coveted Sisyphus Formula, capable of potentially defying death. To draw
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Author: Henry Chebaane Released: Available now Times of London, the first book in Henry Chebaane’s Panharmonion Chronicles series is a genre-bending, super-powered time travel tale packed with unique perspectives and fantastical concepts. When orphaned Canadian musician Alex Campbell inherits an enormous, run-down Victorian London house from a mysterious ancestor, she moves to the UK in
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Director: Xavier Gens Cast: Nassim Lyes, Olivier Gourmet, Loryn Nounay, Vithaya Pansringarm Running Time: 96 mins ‘Farang’ is the Thai word for ‘Caucasian’, or more generally for ‘foreigner’ – and while Xavier Gens’ film of the same name begins in France, its Algerian protagonist Samir ‘Sam’ Darba (the extraordinary Nassim Lyes) is already an outsider,
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Director: Graham Hughes Cast: Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Annabel Logan, Andy Stewart Running Time: 80 mins Much like writer/director Graham Hughes’ previous feature Death of a Vlogger (2019), Hostile Dimensions begins with intradiegetic camerawork, as unseen cameraman Brian follows graffiti artist Emily (Josie Rogers) into an abandoned building where they discover a door and frame
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Director: Joe Stephenson Cast: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Simon Callow Running Time: 90 mins From the very outset, Doctor Jekyll is concerned with class, and with the illusory notion of its boundaries. We know this because it opens with a journalist (Simon Callow) asserting the need to quash “the idea that human beings
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Director: Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp Cast: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Rie Inoo, Shinya Tsukamoto Running Time: 95 mins J-Horror typically features alienated individuals and viral curses, and uses technology – whether outgoing and analogue, like hand-me-down VHS cassettes, or incoming and digital, like the internet – as the medium for its uncanny hauntings. As its
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Director: Maximilian Erlenwein Writer: Maximilian Erlenwein, Joachim Hedén Cast: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause “I still get a bit nervous every time,” says Drew (Sophie Lowe), about to step off a narrow jetty into the sea for a cave dive. “Lucky you,” replies her sister May (Louisa Krause), “Nervous is good. Excitement’s a good thing.” May
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Certificate: 12A Director: Angel Manuel Soto Writer: Gareth Dunnet Alcocer Cast: Xolo Mariduena, Bruna Marquezine, Damian Alcazar, George Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Adriana Barraza, Belissa Escobedo Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 127 mins Let’s not dwell on it. Superhero movies have been on a downward trajectory for some time. Recent efforts, like Shazam: Fury Of The
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Released: 11 August (in cinemas) Director: Justin Simien Writer: Katie Dippold Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto Running Time: 123 mins Once upon a time a movie based on an amusement park ride would have been a laughable concept. But in 2003 Disney rewrote those
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Creator: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman Director: Douglas Mackinnon Writer: John Finnemore, Neil Gaiman Cast: Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm, Doon Mackichan, Gloria Obianyo, Miranda Richardson, Maggie Service, Nina Sosanya Neil Gaiman and Sir Terry Pratchett’s adaption of their book Good Omens lit up Prime Video when it landed back in 2019. Overflowing with the
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Director: Junta Yamaguchi Writer: Makoto Ueda Cast: Riko Fujitani, Yoshimasa Kondo, Shiori Kubo, Munenori Nagano, Yuki Torigoe Running Time: 82 mins “You can’t step into the same river twice,” is a quote attributed to the Early Greek philosopher Heraclitus, as an illustration of stability’s absence in a world of flux. Yet in Junta Yamaguchi’s latest,
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Certificate: 12A Director: Greta Gerwig Writer: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 114 mins Everything is awesome! Well, that’s not what Barbie actually says in the first few minutes of meeting her, but it’s along those lines and like Lord and Miller’s The Lego Movie, Barbie is a giddily fun frolic with
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Released: 21 July 2023 (in cinemas) Director: Samuel Bodin Writer: Chris Thomas Devlin Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, Antony Starr Quiet, timid, sad Peter (Woody Norman) is a preadolescent only child who keeps to himself and finds anxiety in everything. Near the beginning of Cobweb, he stays behind in the classroom during recess
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