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Cruel Britannia 'I, Daniel Blake' by Ken Loach

'I,Daniel Blake' a visceral revolt against injustice.

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High-tech "Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk" takes early bath at US box office

Billy Lynn's long halftime walk to exits as Sony high-hoper bombs at US box-office

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'The Salesman': a masterwork of neorealism

With ‘The Salesman’, Iran’s Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi offers once again a multi-layered masterwork of neorealism.

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Ashgar Farhadi on shooting 'The Salesman'

Picking up two awards at the Cannes film festival, for Best Screenplay and Best Actor (for Shahab Hosseini), Ashgar Farhadi’s latest movie ‘The Salesman’ tells the story of a middle-class couple who m

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Warren Beatty is back after 15 years

Hollywood actor and director Warren Beatty is back after fifteen years.

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Vinny Paz biopic hits big screen

‘Bleed for This’ tells the real-life story of US boxing champion Vinny Pazienza who, after breaking his neck in a car crash, defied the doctor’s advice and got back in the…

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Meet Bob, the stray who gave a British busker a second chance

'A Street Cat Named Bob' tells the heartwarming true story of a homeless tabby who rescued a struggling musician.

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When black and white loving was a crime...

'Loving', based on a true story, dramatises the relationship between a black woman and a white man and their fight for that to be legal in the US.

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'Chouf': a bitter plunge into Marseille's underworld

Is it possible to break the cycle and leave behind your tough suburb, your ‘quartier nord’ as they call it in Marseille?

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Ewan McGregor steps behind the camera

Based on Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, ‘American Pastoral’ is the story of a perfect Middle class American family torn apart when the daughter gets involved in the polit

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'Nocturama' haunting thriller in the heart of Paris

This week’s choice is a film that has polarised movie-goers – ‘Nocturama’ by French director Bertrand Bonello is a daring and controversial portrait of Parisian youths conducting terror attacks around

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'Deepwater Horizon' a man-made disaster now a movie

'Deepwater Horizon' is a movie about the worst oil spill in United States history.

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'Soy Nero': to the frontier of the American dream

‘Soy Nero’ is the story of a young Mexican, who dreams of becoming American.

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Lupita Nyong'o stars in rags-to-riches tale

‘Queen of Katwe’ is the true story of Phiona, a Ugandan girl living in the Kampala slum of Katwe, whose life is turned around when she becomes a prodigious chess…

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'24 Weeks' an emotional portrayal of a moral dilemma

Astrid, a successful TV comic, is facing an emotional dilemma, she is pregnant with her second child, but the baby has some serious health issues.

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'Clash': Egyptian nail-biter is Egypt's Oscar entry

A hit in Cannes where it opened the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section, ‘Clash’ by Mohamed Diab has been selected as Egypt’s entry to the Oscars.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee dies, 88

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died at the age of 88.

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'Divines': girl power in a Paris suburb

This week Cinema Box brings you ‘Divines’, laureate of the Golden Camera in Cannes, which rewards first feature films.

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Tom Hanks is "Miracle on the Hudson" hero

On January 15th, 2009, US Airways pilot Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger became an overnight hero after successfully landing a plane with 155 people onboard in New York’s Hudson…

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'The Light Between Oceans' a couple's heartbreaking moral dilemma

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander took to the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of their latest feature 'The Light Between Oceans.'