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PERSONAL SHOPPER (LFF 2016)
An American personal shopper in Paris starts receiving messages from the afterlife, believing she may share her late brother’s psychic powers…
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ELLE (LFF 2016)
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of ‘cat and mouse’ as she tracks down the man who raped her.
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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
An alien arrives on Earth and sets about creating enough wealth to allow him to finance a return to his own world.
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13th (LFF 2016)
An in-depth look at the US prison system and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.
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A UNITED KINGDOM (LFF 2016)
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.
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HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.8 – ‘You Are Not Safe’
I wish Ryan (Manish Dayal) had been written with more nuance, as his suicide didn’t land a big enough punch as a result of his one-dimensional personality. That’s not to say it was a total failure, thankfully, because it was easy to feel sorry for poor Ryan throughout “You Are Not Safe”, as he was…
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SWISS ARMY MAN (2016)
A suicidal man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body that washes ashore, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.
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WAR ON EVERYONE (2016)
Two corrupt cops in New Mexico start blackmailing and framing criminals they run into, but make the mistake of intimidating someone more dangerous than they are.
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016)
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that complicates her life in some extraordinary ways…
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WESTWORLD, 1.1 – ‘The Original’
Updating Westworld (the 1973 movie Michael Crichton wrote and directed) is a great idea because enough time’s passed for a different approach to the concept of a futuristic theme park where the robot inhabitants break their programming and put the human clientele in danger. It’s an evergreen idea (Crichton basically switched robots for dinosaurs when…
