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DIRECTOR: Channing Godfrey Peoples

CAST: Nicole Beharie, Kendrick Sampson, Alexis Chikaeze, Liz Mikel, Marcus Mauldin, Jaime Matthis, Lori Hayes, Akron Watson, Phyllis Cicero, Lisha Hackney

RUNNING TIME: 99 mins

CERTIFICATE: 15

BASICALLY…: A former beauty queen (Beharie) prepares her rebellious teenage daughter (Chikaeze) for the same pageant she won years ago…

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June 19th 1865, commonly known as “Juneteenth”, is a historic day for African-Americans, for it is the day when slaves were finally emancipated in full […]

DIRECTOR: Roger Spottiswoode

CAST: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Judi Dench, Joe Don Baker, Ricky Jay, Götz Otto, Desmond Llewelyn, Vincent Schiavelli, Colin Salmon, Samantha Bond, Nina Young, Daphne Deckers, Julian Fellowes, Cecille Thomsen, Gerard Butler, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Hugh Bonneville, Geoffrey Palmer

RUNNING TIME: 119 mins

CERTIFICATE: 12

BASICALLY…: James Bond (Brosnan) must stop a power-hungry media mogul (Pryce) from igniting a war between China and the UK in order to boost ratings…

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DIRECTOR: Hong Khaou

CAST: Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran, Molly Harris, Lâm Vissay, Edouard Leo

RUNNING TIME: 85 mins

CERTIFICATE: 12A

BASICALLY…: A young British-Vietnamese man (Golding) returns to Saigon for the first time since he was forced to flee as a child…

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Between Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods and now Hong Khaou’s Monsoon, this year has seen a couple of very different (i.e. non-white) perspectives on the Vietnam experience. Between Lee’s adventure epic discussing […]

DIRECTOR: Harry Bradbeer

CAST: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter, Adeel Akhtar, Fiona Shaw, Frances de la Tour, Louis Partridge, Susie Wokoma, Burn Gorman

RUNNING TIME: 123 mins

CERTIFICATE: 12A

BASICALLY…: Enola Holmes (Brown), the teenage sister of famed detective Sherlock Holmes (Cavill), must outwit her brother to solve an impending case…

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Unlike the rest of us, Millie Bobby Brown is not simply waiting about for the fourth season of Stranger Things […]

DIRECTOR: Nathalie Biancheri

CAST: Cosmo Jarvis, Lauren Coe, Sadie Frost, Yasmin Monet Prince, Laurie Kynaston, Amber Jean Rowan, Ella-Grace Gregoire, Amy Griffiths, Patrick Connolly

RUNNING TIME: 86 mins

CERTIFICATE: 15

BASICALLY…: A cynical teen (Coe) strikes up a friendship with the much older Pete (Jarvis), who appears to be obsessed with her…

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Following a memorable turn opposite Florence Pugh in Lady Macbeth, and an exceptional Marlon Brando-esque starring role in the criminally-underseen Calm with Horses earlier […]