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PILLION review: I saw the horniest film of the year with a room full of old straight people (spoiler: they walked out)

I saw Pillion a few weeks ago as part of Odeon’s Screen Unseen program, where they show upcoming films before their official release. Usually it’s a slightly more obscure film that they think deserves to be seen – for example, in the past I have watched Joy Ride, Scrapper, even bigger films like Anatomy of […]

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WICKED: FOR GOOD review: Glinda will never know if it’s green in this tragic yuri that never was

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.   After the shortest gap between a film and its sequel we have seen in about a decade, Jon M. Chu is back to finish off his tragic lesbian romance… wait, what do you mean Elphaba and Glinda are both straight? That can’t be correct, surely? The entire crux of this

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BUGONIA review: Emma Stone is snatched bald after Jesse Plemons clocks her alien tea

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.   Yorgos Lanthimos has carved an incredibly niche, and wonderfully distinct, place for himself in modern cinema. There’s no way you can watch one of his films without knowing intrinsically that he made it. Which is why it’s surprising that Bugonia, his fourth collaboration with Emma Stone, was never originally meant

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