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The Beautiful Game


Gleefully bonkers horror with Sydney Sweeney as a pregnant nun


Bleeding Love


Lively, emotional road movie with Clara and Ewan McGregor


Disco Boy


Intensely intimate international drama with Franz Rogowski


Wicked Little Letters


Corny English comedy is well-played by Jessie Buckley & Olivia Colman


The Listener


Engaging if overwritten helpline drama with Tessa Thompson


Silver Haze


Artfully shot but thin and meandering British drama has a strong cast

film news

CROSSING THE FINISH LINE!
AWARDS SEASON SWEEPSTAKES

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SHADOWS AWARDS: BEST of 2023

Margot takes on Sims
27.MAR:
Robbie produces the big-screen adaptation of The Sims videogame, directed by Herron
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Johansson leads the cast of the new Jurrassic movie, directed by Edwards
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Harrison is Pharrell in Gondry biopic
James produces, stars in Bumble bio
Broadbent, Fiennes lead CHORAL
Grazer, Segarra in FRIENDSHIP
Embry & Li for ALMA AND THE WOLF
Coogler making a Prince musical
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Aaron might be 007
24.MAR:
Taylor-Johnson has apparently been offered the role as James Bond for the next set of movies
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Wright joins Washington in Lee's High & Low kidnapping thriller remake
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Harris, Brosnan, Burke in BAG
Elba will direct DUST TO DREAMS
Cox is Santa in THAT CHRISTMAS
Wallis joins MERCY thriller
Cooke & Essiedu in THE SCURRY
Chase & Winter make horror movie
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Michelle has Fun
20.MAR:
Pfeiffer will star in Showalter's comedy Oh. What. Fun., as a woman left behind at Christmas.
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Brunson, Yang, Hader, Gomez and more voice characters in new animated film of Dr Seuss' Cat in the Hat
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Reid produces, stars in GET LITE
Nivola in Almodovar's ROOM
LaBeouf is Mamet's HENRY
Niney produces, stars in GOUROU
Dante & Corman remake SHOP
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box office

coming soon

MOTHERS' INSTINCT
KUNG FU PANDA 4
GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE
IN THE LAND OF SAINTS...
CARNAL SINS
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
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5 Apr:
MONKEY MAN
THE FIRST OMEN
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS
THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA
DOGMAN
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
IO CAPITANO
RESTORE POINT
LUCA
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12 Apr:
BACK TO BLACK
CIVIL WAR
BLEEDING LOVE
THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE
OPPONENT
CLOSE YOUR EYES
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Recently published reviews:
ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
LADY LIKE
UNSPOKEN
CALLS FROM MOSCOW
COMMITMENT TO LIFE
DON'T EVER STOP
BALDIGA: UNLOCKED HEART
PINE CONE
GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

stage & more

An epic final battle

DANCE: Kidd Pivot stages the astonishingly powerful Assembly Hall at Sadler's Wells...


38th BFI Flare

FESTIVAL: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival at BFI Southbank until 24th Mar. Updates/reviews on THE BLOG


Dazzling sights and sounds

DANCE: Company Wayne McGregor brings Autobiography and UniVerse to Sadler's Wells...


What really happened?

STAGE: Intense two-hander Blue explores social issues at Seven Dials Playhouse until 30th Mar...


We didn't make it to Disney

STAGE: Parody musical Unfortunate is a riotous explosion of naughty energy, on tour until 14th July...


Charmingly transgressive

STAGE: Connor Burns brings his acclaimed stand-up Vertigo to Soho Theatre, on tour through March...


Pushing forward

DANCE: New York City Ballet presents four expertly performed pieces at Sadler's Wells...


Blissfully out of control

STAGE: Zach Zucker's Stamptown takes Soho Theatre audiences by storm...


Impossible decisions

STAGE: Emotive drama The Mother of Kamal is Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate...


January TV Roundup

SCREEN: Frasier, The Crown, Fellow Travelers, Morning Show, Lessons in Chemistry, Brothers Sun and more...


Let's talk about sex

STAGE: Blind Summit brings The
Sex Lives of Puppets
to Southwark Playhouse...


Spilling the beans

STAGE: Royal Vauxhall Tavern presents its annual adult-oriented panto Tossed...

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STAGE: Puss in Bootsat Wonderville
STAGE: Garry Starr at Southwark
DANCE: Taiwan's Cloud Gate Theatre
DANCE: New work at Sadler's Wells
DANCE: Lovetrain2020, Sadler's Wells
Shadows @ AFI Fest
STAGE: White Factory at Marylebone
Shadows @ London Film Fest
STAGE: Strangers in Between
STAGE: Deeper and Deeper at Union
Shadows @ Fragments Festival
DANCE: Kyiv City Ballet at Peacock
STAGE: La Cage aux Folles, open air
STAGE: Myra DuBois at the Peacock
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now showing

Immaculate


Gleefully bonkers horror with Sydney Sweeney as a pregnant nun


The Delinquents


Ambitiously complicated, dryly witty heist epic from Argentina


You’ll Never Find Me


Atmospheric horror is focussed, claustrophobic and painfully arch


Drive-Away Dolls


Energetic but oddly aimless road movie with Margaret and Geraldine


Dogman


Offbeat Luc Besson thriller stars
Caleb Landry Jones as a dog lover


State of Consciousness


Fragmented and twisty psychological thriller with Emile Hirsch


American Dreamer


Uneven but scrappy comedy with Peter Dinklage & Shirley MacLaine


The Inventor


Witty, inventively animated adventure about Leonardo da Vinci


Ordinary Angels


Engaging, emotive true story with Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson


Lisa Frankenstein


Sparky teen comedy with Cole Sprouse & Kathryn Newton


Cold Meat


Tightly contained thriller centres on two people trapped in the snow


American Star


Very loose thriller starring Ian McShane as a hitman in the Canaries


Out of Darkness


Jump-scare heavy Stone Age thriller with an oddly over-groomed cast


Bleeding Love


Emotional father-daughter road movie with Clara and Ewan McGregor

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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE
MADAME WEB
SHOSHANA
EUREKA
GETTING IT BACK: STORY OF CYMANDE
BONDED
THE SEEDING
THE SETTLERS
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recommended

Robot Dreams


Hugely charming animation traces a friendship with unusual nuance


In Restless Dreams


Alex Gibney's dazzling epic doc follows Paul Simon's process


Late Night With the Devil


Snappy and fiendishly clever 1970s-style horror with David Dastmalchian


Femme


Darkly moving, beautifully acted British drama explores masculinity


Limbo


Slow-burn mystery with Simon Baker in a dusty corner of the Outback


The Boy and the Heron


Another inventive, staggeringly powerful film from Hirokazu Kore-eda


Monster


Another inventive, staggeringly powerful film from Hirokazu Kore-eda


Luca


Lovely Pixar adventure finally on the big screen where it belongs


The New Boy


Gorgeously shot, powerful Aussie drama stars Cate Blanchett as a nun


Origin


Clever, fiercely involving drama about divisions in American society


Dune: Part Two


Bigger, deeper sequel with Florence Pugh and Timothee Chalamet


Do Not Expect Too Much
of the End of the World

Another playfull collage of big ideas from Romania's Radu Jude


Glitter & Doom


Charming and wonderfully colour-drenched musical romantic fantasy

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HIGH AND LOW: JOHN GALLIANO
IO CAPITANO
SOUL
PERFECT DAYS
MEMORY
THE TASTE OF THINGS
THE IRON CLAW
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