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Director and writer Thomas Vinterberg removes personal moralistic agenda from Another Round to allow the story of history teacher Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) and his three friends' day drinking experiment to unfold naturally. According to Vinterberg, the film began as a tribute to alcohol and Danish drinking culture, however the...

Alex Watkin With the worst of Covid-19 now hopefully behind us, Alex looks back at the heights of the pandemic to pick out key themes surrounding the virus and how it has affected our lives. Over the next few months, Alex will be curating film recommendations around these key...

Alex Watkin reviews 'In the Heights'....

Alex Watkin Director Florian Zeller’s The Father is a competently executed film about the difficult subject of Alzheimer’s disease; this is both its strength and its weakness. Its strength because, from my personal experience of a grandmother with Alzheimer’s, the film felt very accurate. Clearly, considerable time has been...

A Quiet Place Part II is more of the same; like the first instalment it does what it says on the tin and it does it well, but it's weak overplayed family story won’t satisfy those who aren’t interested in its horror trappings. This series deals with a post-apocalyptic...

Alex Watkin reviews 'Surge'....

Directed by Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Darkest Hour), The Woman in the Window is a pretentious botch. It wants to be a serious psychological drama and a silly slasher mystery at the same time, but by trying to combine the two, it miserably fails at both....