Film & TV

Romantic Road

Reviewed by Lou Fulco

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down to watch this documentary. I didn’t even know it was a documentary. Eighty or so minutes later and I wanted to watch it all again. Had I missed anything? Was…

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We Are Who We Are

Reviewed by Joanna Di Mattia

Luca Guadagnino is a master at depicting big feelings. In his most celebrated films, I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), and Call Me by Your Name (2017), he travels deep inside the emotional landscapes of his characters as…

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The Crown (Season 3)

Reviewed by Dave Clarke

The end of the year brings two exciting dates for fans of The Crown. For those with Netflix subscriptions, Season 4 of this outstanding series will have its streaming release on 15 November, and for everyone else who has…

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My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name (Series 2)

Reviewed by Joanna Di Mattia

Season two of the television adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels picks up where the first ended – at Lila’s wedding and its aftermath. Now sixteen, the brilliant friends’ lives are more complex, and Gaia Girace as Lila and Margherita…

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The Loudest Voice

Reviewed by Lou Fulco

I wasn’t sure I could review this mini series. Not because I didn’t like it, far from it. This is a brilliantly made series that keeps you engrossed from its first minute to its last. Russell Crowe absolutely nails his…

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Belgravia

Reviewed by Joanna Di Mattia

The new six-part series from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, opens with a view he knows well – high society at play. In Belgravia, written by Fellowes and based on his novel, the scene is the…

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Honeyland

Reviewed by Joanna Di Mattia

Honeyland is a lyrical, realist documentary and an intimate character study of a resilient, wise woman. Hatidze Muratova is in her fifties, living a simple life in a remote and primitive mountain village in Northern Macedonia where she cares for…

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Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns

Reviewed by Lou Fulco

Ken Burns brings us his new documentary on country music, to go along with his other brilliant histories of the Civil War, baseball, the Vietnam War, and the West, among others. Using footage and photos rarely seen, Burns introduces us…

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Parasite

Reviewed by Joanna Di Mattia

When Bong Joon-ho won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2019, Parasite was the first South Korean film ever awarded the festival’s top prize. Almost a year later, director Bong accomplished another series of firsts. At this year’s Oscars, Parasite

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Pavarotti

Reviewed by Alexandra Mathew

Travelling in a tinny through the Amazon jungle, Pavarotti makes a pilgrimage to a boarded-up opera house where Enrico Caruso supposedly performed. Once inside and onstage, he lets loose his inimitable tenor voice for the lucky few assembled in the…

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