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Based on the popular young-adult horror fiction series by R.L Stine, this big screen adaptation rolls like a laissez-faire ghost train with a spry demeanour and an army of malevolent beasties that jest and taunt […]
Bolshoi Babylon offers a rare insight into life behind the scenes at The Bolshoi, an insight that is both intriguing and unsettling. The documentary film is set against the backdrop of the 2013 scandal that […]
The classic A Bout de Souffle starring Belmondo and Seberg brought free-running Sixties’ cool to the world a year before the decade itself kicked off. That’s over fifty years ago yet even today the free-wheeling, […]
Charlie Chan Says: Kidnapped mother and son devise a trick To flee confinement imposed by Old Nick I lived in a bedsit once. When I was a student. An attic room with a shared toilet […]