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‘A piece of supremely nasty mischief’: Peter Bradshaw on the White House video

silverguide.site – In a chilling social media video that is beyond irony, clips from Braveheart, Gladiator, Superman and Top Gun are crassly interspersed with real kill-shot footage of the attacks in Iran…
‘A piece of supremely nasty mischief’: Peter Bradshaw on the White House video

The Game of Thrones movie is coming – but how are they going to make audiences root for the baddies?

silverguide.site – The early intel from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels paints the Targaryens as tyrants – so making them the heroes is going to require some hefty literary PR…
The Game of Thrones movie is coming – but how are they going to make audiences root for the baddies?

Oscar race enters final stretch as Sinners gains ground with Actor awards win

silverguide.site – With voting now closed, the months-long campaign for Oscar glory is over – but industry insiders are still dissecting every award-season clue in a tight best picture race…
Oscar race enters final stretch as Sinners gains ground with Actor awards win

‘Did I just hear what I thought I heard?’: Sinners’ Delroy Lindo on Bafta N-word controversy

silverguide.site – The actor says he had only ‘a nanosecond’ to process the racial slur shouted during the Baftas as the BBC described the errors that led to its broadcast…
‘Did I just hear what I thought I heard?’: Sinners’ Delroy Lindo on Bafta N-word controversy

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education

silverguide.site – Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College…
‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education

War Machine review – Netflix bravely asks: what if Predator but Transformers?

silverguide.site – Reacher’s Alan Ritchson takes on alien robots in an action thriller that benefits from some better-than-usual streaming special effects…
War Machine review – Netflix bravely asks: what if Predator but Transformers?

Why Hamnet should win the best picture Oscar

silverguide.site – By forefronting Jessie Buckley’s Agnes at the expense of her megastar husband, this female-directed feminist fest gives voice to the anguished howls of disenfranchised women everywhere…
Why Hamnet should win the best picture Oscar

Hard Boiled review – John Woo’s outrageously explosive 1992 cop thriller is pure action mayhem

silverguide.site – Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung face off in a wildly inventive film whose hospital shootout remains one of cinema’s most irresistible set pieces…
Hard Boiled review – John Woo’s outrageously explosive 1992 cop thriller is pure action mayhem

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown

silverguide.site – Cillian Murphy reprises his haunted gang boss in Steven Knight’s muscular film spin-off – as a wartime clash with Nazis and family betrayal pulls him back to Birmingham…
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown

Chic couture, bio-terror and a whole load of Mike Leigh: Lesley Manville’s finest films – ranked!

silverguide.site – With her 70th birthday around the corner, we assess the greatest screen outings by the indisputable doyenne of dour British drama – and plenty more asides…
Chic couture, bio-terror and a whole load of Mike Leigh: Lesley Manville’s finest films – ranked!

The Paramount-Warner Bros mega-merger still has a few hurdles to get over

silverguide.site – The $110bn deal will require approval from regulatory authorities in the US, the EU and the UK…
The Paramount-Warner Bros mega-merger still has a few hurdles to get over

Soul to Soul review – joyous 1971 concert film captures Black American stars’ emotional return to Ghana

silverguide.site – Restored documentary records a historic independence day show in Accra, with electrifying performances from Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and more…
Soul to Soul review – joyous 1971 concert film captures Black American stars’ emotional return to Ghana

Mother’s Pride review – flat-cap populism and weak beer in Martin Clunes post-Brexit pub comedy

silverguide.site – The team behind Fisherman’s Friends swap sea shanties for real ale, but this tale of rival West Country boozers serves up clunky exposition and sentiment on tap…
Mother’s Pride review – flat-cap populism and weak beer in Martin Clunes post-Brexit pub comedy

Why Bugonia should win the best picture Oscar

silverguide.site – Contains spoilers: Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inquiry…
Why Bugonia should win the best picture Oscar

Breaking Social review – Rutger Bregman leads an irresistible rallying cry for global activism

silverguide.site – Fredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality – while Bregman’s nuggets of wisdom are a joy…
Breaking Social review – Rutger Bregman leads an irresistible rallying cry for global activism

‘At first, she couldn’t come off the oxygen long enough’: the film that gives Marianne Faithfull one final thrilling performance

silverguide.site – In new docu-drama Broken English, the much misunderstood singer looks back at all her past selves – and gives a performance that moves her audience to tears. Its makers relive an extraordinary shoot…
‘At first, she couldn’t come off the oxygen long enough’: the film that gives Marianne Faithfull one final thrilling performance

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

silverguide.site – The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film…
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

Berlin film festival head to keep job after Gaza free speech row

silverguide.site – The German government convened a crisis meeting after several prize winners at this year’s event condemned Israel’s actions against Palestinians…
Berlin film festival head to keep job after Gaza free speech row

Sydney to Hobart 1998: the harrowing race that killed six and ‘shattered the community’

silverguide.site – Two brothers return to the yacht race that killed their father in True South, a documentary about the darkest moment in the event’s history…
Sydney to Hobart 1998: the harrowing race that killed six and ‘shattered the community’

Dolly review – six-foot mannequin terrorises camping couple in gory, trope-filled horror

silverguide.site – Rising scream queen Fabianne Therese’s ability to channel distress somewhat redeems film in which an attractive, therefore doomed, couple learn major lesson…
Dolly review – six-foot mannequin terrorises camping couple in gory, trope-filled horror
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