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  • Away We Go (2009)
    Review preview for Away We Go

    Once they hit the road, the script goes away with the pixies.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Indie comedy about a couple who go on a road trip to help them decide where is best to bring up baby.
  • Alien: Covenant (2017)
    Review preview for Alien: Covenant

    Its use of blood and slime and razor teeth is more inventive than a 12-year-old needs watch.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A spaceship full of colonists check out another planet where man eating monsters are starving for fresh meat
  • Born To Be Blue (2015)
    Review preview for Born To Be Blue

    This is a classic love triangle, depicting a man torn between a beautiful woman and the drug that first stole his heart. Hawke makes us believe it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.
  • Cold Lazarus (1996)
    Review preview for Cold Lazarus

    Cold Lazarus ends writer Dennis Potter's career on an elegiac note. But, as ever for Potter, this elegy is played out in bitter minor chords.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    In 2368, scientists tap into the memory of a man who died in the 1990s.
  • It Comes At Night (2017)
    Review preview for It Comes At Night

    The fascination of the film is the atmosphere created and the danger that fills every living minute

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Three people struggling to survive in a post apocalyptic forest find themselves severely tested when a young family seeks refuge with them.
  • Lackawanna Blues (2005)
    Review preview for Lackawanna Blues

    You'll soon forget the blues - this colour palette is as vibrant as the personalities.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    A celebration of the black communities in New York during the Fifties and Sixties.
  • The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
    Review preview for The Purge: Anarchy

    Somewhere an interesting idea gets choked with blood and ends up like any other killer spree fearjerker

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Trying to stay alive on the one day of the year when murder is legal.
  • Selma (2014)
    Review preview for Selma

    There are long stretches when nothing much happens

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights.
  • What's The Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
    Review preview for What's The Worst That Could Happen?

    Run-of-the-mill means straight-to-video and that's what this should have been.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Martin Lawrence is a friendly crook and Danny DeVito is a crooked businessman.

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