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London Film Festival

Trap Street review (London Film Festival)

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
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It’s never intense enough for the paranoid thriller it wants to be, but it has some chilling things to say about the dangers of the not-quite all-seeing eye of a total-surveillance society.

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Sx_Tape review (London Film Festival) (world premiere)

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
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There’s no reason or logic in this found-footage yawner, and nothing rises to the level of even adolescent notions of sexy-scary.

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The Congress movie review (London Film Festival)

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
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A hugely ambitious film reminiscent of The Matrix and the works of Terry Gilliam while also carving out its own apocalyptic sci-fi space.

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London photo of the day: the other side of the red carpet

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
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What it looked like from the other side of the barriers, at Saturday night’s London Film Festival gala screening of Half of a Yellow Sun.

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the London Film Festival is over

Mon, Oct 21, 2013
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Two hundred thirty-five feature films screened at London Film Festival 2013; I saw 59 of them. Because I am a madwoman.

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London photo of the day: Tom Hiddleston arrives at London Film Festival premiere

Sun, Oct 20, 2013
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Honestly. That’s Tom Hiddleston, arriving for the Cult Gala screening of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive.

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London photo of the day: film festival press at dawn

Sat, Oct 19, 2013
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The London Film Festival press screening of 12 Years a Slave drew the biggest crowd I’ve seen of the entire festival so far…

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The Armstrong Lie trailer: liar liar pants on fire

Fri, Oct 18, 2013
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It’s always astonishing to me how people think they’re not gonna caught in their enormous lies.

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London photo of the day: Harvey Weinstein at London Film Festival

Fri, Oct 18, 2013
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Introducing the secret film tonight: Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster.

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London photo of the day: Inside Llewyn Davis gala marquee

Wed, Oct 16, 2013
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Another day, another London Film Festival gala marquee at the Odeon Leicester Square.

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