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The Gleaners and I is a documentary directed by the French new wave filmmaker, Agnès Varda. As the title alludes, its focus is gleaning, which in the traditional sense is the act of gatehering leftovers after harvest in farmers' fields. Varda's film interviews and explores gleaners in rural France,...

Alex Watkin Hannah Tasker’s short Picking Up on Things has been nominated for Best Experimental Film at this year’s British Film Institute (BFI) Future Film Festival. The film is a lockdown-made desktop documentary which sees a filmmaker filming themselves to examine their behaviours. Picking Up on Things is amongst...

Post-punk music duo Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, known together as Sleaford Mods, bring their self-aware rambling lyrics and electronic minimalism back home to Nottingham - playing at the keynote venue of Motorpoint Arena. Alex Watkin reviews…...

Director David Lowery revises 14th century Arthurian poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” for a modern context. Dev Patel plays lead character Sir Gawain, who must go on an absurd quest in the name of honour to find the Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) to be beheaded and thus...

Alex Watkin Last month, Alex selected three films around the theme of “hypocrisy” inspired by the unfortunate reoccurrence of high profile politicians flouting their own COVID-19 restrictions. This month, in contrast, the theme surrounds the virtue of sticking to your word and staying true to your principles – “Integrity”....

Being one of the most anticipated movies of 2021, The Suicide Squad's release was highly awaited by the DC and Marvel franchise's fans. Alex Watkin explores the film in depth, and why it disappointed him in places....

Alex Watkin reviews 'Limbo', directed by Ben Sharrock....