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The Ballad of Wallis Island review – funny, melancholy yarn of a folk duo reunited by oddball superfan

silverguide.site – Tim Key bring his trademark pleasant awkwardness to the island-owner who pays Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan to come and play for him…
The Ballad of Wallis Island review – funny, melancholy yarn of a folk duo reunited by oddball superfan
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The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal

silverguide.site – Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemption…
The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal
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The North review – old friends’ trek through the Highlands might be the ultimate hiking film

silverguide.site – Patiently following the progress of two pals’ reunion across Scotland, director Bart Schrijver achieves a majestic drama that never forces its epiphanies…
The North review – old friends’ trek through the Highlands might be the ultimate hiking film
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Vampire Hunter D review – head-popping visuals offset very pre-MeToo erotic anime

silverguide.site – Regarded as pioneering on its release in 1985, this sleazy tale’s sexual politics are long past-it, but the visual invention remains magnetic…
Vampire Hunter D review – head-popping visuals offset very pre-MeToo erotic anime
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Kevin Costner and Horizon producers sued by stunt performer over ‘violent unscripted’ rape scene

silverguide.site – Devyn LaBella is suing the actor-director and the producers of his film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 alleging breach of contract, with Costner denying all allegations…
Kevin Costner and Horizon producers sued by stunt performer over ‘violent unscripted’ rape scene
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Letitia Wright describes ‘huge burden’ of representation on black artists

silverguide.site – Black Panther actor tells of deep sense of responsibility when making directorial debut about effects of knife crime…
Letitia Wright describes ‘huge burden’ of representation on black artists
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‘It’s very risky’: the Philippou brothers on horror films, back yard wrestling and knocking back Hollywood

silverguide.site – Their new film Bring Her Back is in cinemas soon and a sequel to their hit debut Talk To Me is in the works, but the LA-based directors say Adelaide still feels like home…
‘It’s very risky’: the Philippou brothers on horror films, back yard wrestling and knocking back Hollywood
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Autumn review – amazing landscape plays central role in Portuguese wine-family drama

silverguide.site – Set in the Douro valley, Antonio Sequeira’s softly drawn portrait of a family in flux never quite ferments to anything more than a light tipple about the passing of time…
Autumn review – amazing landscape plays central role in Portuguese wine-family drama
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The Venus Effect review – a sizzling queer romcom without the cliches

silverguide.site – A funny, heart-on-sleeve Danish drama that cleverly captures the complexities of coming out and queer identity with a character that wonders: am I gay enough to be gay?…
The Venus Effect review – a sizzling queer romcom without the cliches
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Bogancloch review – the further adventures of a Scottish hermit in Ben Rivers’ beguiling essay

silverguide.site – Rivers returns to document a past subject, Jake Williams, whose reclusive Scottish forest existence is fascinating but defies explanation…
Bogancloch review – the further adventures of a Scottish hermit in Ben Rivers’ beguiling essay
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James Bond franchise owners request more time to defend control of 007 spy name

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Dubai-based property developer has challenged trademark registrations over lack of use…
James Bond franchise owners request more time to defend control of 007 spy name
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Marcel Ophuls obituary

silverguide.site – Documentary film-maker best known for The Sorrow and the Pity and Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie…
Marcel Ophuls obituary
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Marcel Ophuls was the unflinching chronicler of France’s suppressed wartime shame

silverguide.site – The Sorrow and the Pity punched a hole through France’s self-excusing myths and saw something nastier, shabbier, more political and more human…
Marcel Ophuls was the unflinching chronicler of France’s suppressed wartime shame
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Amongst the Wolves review – drills and chills in Irish gangster thriller

silverguide.site – Aiden Gillen is in ultraviolent mode as a sadistic gang boss, but it is co-writer Luke McQuillan who brings a careful nuance to this uneven and bloody tale of revenge…
Amongst the Wolves review – drills and chills in Irish gangster thriller
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The Road to Patagonia review – an epic journey from Alaska to the Andes

silverguide.site – Director Matty Hannon’s adventures are a dazzling cinematic homage to nature even if his environmental commentary sometimes roams a bit too freely…
The Road to Patagonia review – an epic journey from Alaska to the Andes
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‘I smile every time’: why Amélie is my feelgood movie

silverguide.site – The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort films is a reminder of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s charming Parisian fairytale…
‘I smile every time’: why Amélie is my feelgood movie
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A Golden Life review – childhood is collateral damage in Burkina Faso’s search for gold

silverguide.site – An intimately shot documentary captures the dignity and resilience of teenagers who toil in mines where companionship is the only consolation for graft…
A Golden Life review – childhood is collateral damage in Burkina Faso’s search for gold
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No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

silverguide.site – Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?…
No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters
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Hello Stranger review – interactive thriller puts remote worker in trial-by-internet

silverguide.site – A lonely man is forced into a series of deadly games by a masked online sadist in this choose your own adventure – but bouts of paper-scissor-stones fail to engage…
Hello Stranger review – interactive thriller puts remote worker in trial-by-internet
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Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning film-maker of The Sorrow and the Pity, dies aged 97

silverguide.site – The German-French documentarian, who fled the Nazis twice as a child, spent his career exploring wartime atrocities and conflicts…
Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning film-maker of The Sorrow and the Pity, dies aged 97
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