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00:05:48

Review: Rogue Agent

At The Movies ·

2022/12/07

Rogue Agent is a based-on-real-life story of a conman who convinces a string of women that he's a spy. Stars Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe) and James Norton (Happy Valley).

00:06:13

Review: Bones and All

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2022/11/30

Bones and All is the Venice Film Festival-winning horror film by Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name). It stars Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as two young people on the run, sharing a disturbing secret.

00:06:22

Review: The Menu

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2022/11/30

The Menu is a dark comedy about a gala night at an exclusive restaurant run by a chef with a hidden agenda. Starring Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Anya Taylor-Joy (Last night in Soho), and Nicholas Hoult (Tolkien), and directed by Mark Mylod (Succession).

00:05:55

At The Movies - Poker Face

At The Movies ·

2022/11/30

Poker face stars Russell Crowe - who also wrote and directed it - as a billionaire gambler. Featuring Liam Hemsworth (The hunger games).

00:22:34

At The Movies for 30 November

At The Movies ·

2022/11/30

Simon Morris warns against assuming an audience shares your enthusiasms, whether it's haute cuisine, high stakes poker or cannibalism!

00:23:03

At The Movies for 23 November 2022

At The Movies ·

2022/11/23

Simon Morris is reassured by three reliable movie formats - the newspaper story, the Brontë-esque melodrama, and the tale of two lost souls stranded in Central America.

00:06:23

Review: She Said

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2022/11/23

She Said tells the story of how two New York women journalists took on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Stars Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) and real-life whistle-blower Ashley Judd as herself.

00:06:25

Review: Emily

At The Movies ·

2022/11/23

Emily is a "fictionalized biography" of the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Anne and Emily. In particular it's about how Emily's masterpiece Wuthering Heights was created. Starring Emma Mackey (Eiffel) as Emily, with Adrian Dunbar (Line of duty) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk).

00:05:46

At The Movies - Stars at Noon

At The Movies ·

2022/11/23

French auteur Claire Denis won the Grand Prix at Cannes for this romantic thriller set in Africa.

00:06:45

Black Panther: Wakanda For Ever

At The Movies ·

2022/11/16

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever struggles to match the power of the 2018 Black Panther film without original star Chadwick Boseman.

00:05:18

Mister Organ

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2022/11/16

Maverick documentary-maker David Farrier tackles his toughest and longest assignment, the notorious Mr Organ who first made headlines by clamping Auckland illegal parkers and charging them hundreds of dollars to be released.

00:06:00

Compartment Number 6

At The Movies ·

2022/11/16

The award-winning movie Compartment Number 6 puts a Finnish twist on the old Strangers on a Train format.

00:22:54

At The Movies for Wednesday 16 November

At The Movies ·

2022/11/16

Simon Morris compares a big, crowded blockbuster with two smaller but rather more focused films from Finland and New Zealand.

00:06:23

All Quiet on the Western Front

At The Movies ·

2022/11/09

All Quiet on the Western Front is the first German adaptation of the famous novel about World War I. Produced by and featuring Daniel Brühl (Good bye Lenin), it's currently showing on Netflix.

00:22:16

At The Movies for Wednesday 9 November

At The Movies ·

2022/11/09

Simon Morris looks at three movies where the story is the point, not the star. All but one…

00:05:38

Review: The Wonder

At The Movies ·

2022/11/09

The Wonder is set in the Nineteenth Century. A nurse is brought to Ireland to confirm that a young girl is staying alive miraculously. Stars Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) and directed by Sebastián Lelio (Gloria Bell).

00:05:57

Review: My Policeman

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2022/11/09

My Policeman, available on Prime Video, is the story of a fraught romance, over a forty-year period, with an interesting cast. It stars Emma Corrin (The Crown), David Dawson (The Last Empire), and in the title role Linus Roache (Mandy) and pop star Harry Styles (Dunkirk).

00:05:50

The Night of the 12th

At The Movies ·

2022/11/02

The Night of the 12th is a French police thriller about a shocking murder that becomes an obsession for the two detectives trying to solve it.

00:06:11

The Woman King

At The Movies ·

2022/11/02

Viola Davis stars in this controversial new film about a real-life women's army in 19th-century West Africa — and their involvement in the slave trade.

00:22:19

At The Movies for Wednesday 2 November

At The Movies ·

2022/11/02

Simon Morris wrestles with challenging storylines, and wonders if you have to understand everything to enjoy them.

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