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HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.9 & 3.10 – ‘NIM’ & ‘NeXT’
There was a surprise four-year time-jump for the penultimate episode, “NIM”. That’s a lifetime in technology circles. It’s 1990 and Donna’s (Kerry Bishé) using Windows 3.0 and wearing pantsuits as a senior partner at Diane’s firm, following Mutiny’s collapse. But that’s far from the only thing to have changed. Gordon (Scoot McNair) and Donna have divorced,…
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ARRIVAL (LFF 2016)
An expert linguist is recruited by the US military to communicate with an alien race that have arrived on Earth in levitating spaceships…
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WESTWORLD, 1.2 – ‘Chestnut’
Most doubts I had about Westworld last week (of which there were few) were washed away by its second episode, “Chestnut”; a remarkably confident and engrossing hour of intelligent, carefully constructed science fiction. I already love how this show doesn’t seem to be stretching out the story, but is plowing ahead and letting us know…
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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.
