Contributor Henry Heffer

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Does your taste in film betray your position on Brexit?

Some of your favourite movies may hold clues about your true feelings on the UK EU referendum.
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Reviews

A Hologram for the King

Tom Hanks plays a genial hologram salesman(!) who packs off to Saudi Arabia for a voyage of personal discovery.

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In Retrospect
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Reviews

Cabin Fever

Unless you’re an Eli Roth completist, avoid this remake of the 2002 parasitic horror like the plague.

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Trailers

Watch the pulsating first trailer for The Accountant

Ben Affleck plays the numbers game in this Bourne-esque thriller from director Gavin O’Connor.
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Reviews

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Tina Fey brings some light comic relief to the Afghanistan conflict in this cutting media commentary.

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Incoming

Everything we know about Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund team up for the director’s latest literary adaption.
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In Praise Of

Is this Will Smith’s greatest performance?

We wend our way back to 1993 to heap praise on Fred Schepisi’s Six Degrees of Separation.
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Reviews

Truman

The great Ricardo Darin plays a man facing death – but what will become of his trusty mutt?

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Eight surprising depictions of the President of the United States

Will Ferrell’s casting as Ronald Reagan got us thinking of other memorable POTUS portrayals in the movies.
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Would you eat at any of these movie themed restaurants?

A new Star Wars dinner has inspired us branch out into the lucrative world of novelty food joints.
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Reviews

God’s Not Dead 2

Melissa Joan Hart and Jesse Metcalfe fly the flag for the Big Guy in this baffling piece of Christian pamphleteering.

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