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Free Chol Soo Lee

Directors – Julia Ha, Eugene Yi – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 83m **** Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, Korean American Chol Soo Lee became a figurehead for a protest movement, something he felt unable to live up to – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 19th In San […]

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West Side Story
(2021)

Director – Steven Spielberg – 2021 – US – Cert. 12a – 156m ***** This reimagining of the landmark 1961 musical feels fresh and completely different, yet strangely familiar at the same time – out in cinemas on Friday, December 10th The original adaptation of Broadway show West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961) […]

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Ròm

Director – Tran Thanh Huy – 2019 – Vietnam – Cert. 12a – 79m ***** An urban street kid works as a lottery runner to survive while a slightly older boy attempts to steal his turf – from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), on now Spending his nights alone in his slum rooftop […]

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La Haine

Director – Mathieu Kassovitz – 1995 – France – Cert. 15 – 98m ***1/2 Three disenchanted, immigrant youths from a banlieu estate take themselves to Central Paris for 24 hours – in cinemas from Friday, September 11th, on Blu-ray from Monday, November 16th and on BFI Player from Friday, December 18th There’s a verbal story […]

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Les Misérables

Director – Ladj Ly – 2019 – France – Cert. 15 – 104m **** Exclusively in cinemas from Friday, September 4th Although this takes its title from Victor Hugo’s eponymous novel, it’s not really an adaptation except in the loosest possible sense. It ends on a quote from the book: “There are no bad plants, […]