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  • Babylon (1980)
    Review preview for Babylon

    Filmed in the style of Scorsese’s Mean Streets, it stands the test of time and the performances of the young cast are exemplary.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Racial tensions and the battle of sound systems in Brixton's black streets in the late Seventies.
  • Deadmeat (2011)
    Review preview for Deadmeat

    The budget limitations are painfully obvious and the dialogue wooden in the extreme.

    Jeff Robson · 1 out of 5
    An ex-convict vows revenge on the gang who caused his brother’s death.
  • Gimme Gimme Gimme: The Complete Third Series (2002)
    Review preview for Gimme Gimme Gimme: The Complete Third Series

    Every episode features a greedy helping of dark slapstick humour.

    David Stanners · 3 out of 5
    Kathy Burke is a fat sex maniac and James Dreyfus an effeminate luvvy who share a flat.
  • Pan (2015)
    Review preview for Pan

    Visual indigestion and intellectual flatulence

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A 12-year-old orphan is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland where he fights pirates to save fairies and ultimately discovers his destiny as Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up.
  • Time Travel Is Dangerous (2024)
    Review preview for Time Travel Is Dangerous

    A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their shop, with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe.

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