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- The Souvenir Part II. Joanna Hogg, UK. And the winner is… The Souvenir Part II. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne reflect on winning the S&S 2021 poll, and on the long and satisfying journey of making the Souvenir films.
- Petite maman. Céline Sciamma, France. Sciamma’s miniature forest fairy tale perfectly conjures the mysteries of a mother-daughter bond shaded by grief. We said: “An extremely small and exactly perfect film, Céline Sciamma’s Petite maman might at first appear dwarfed by her last title, Portrait of a Lady of Fire.
- Drive My Car. Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Japan. Murakami Haruki’s short story of a driver growing closer to her passenger is adapted by Hamaguchi Ryūsuke into an understated and precise reflection on language, emotion and loss.
- Memoria. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand. Tilda Swinton wanders the streets of Bogota while striving to understand the strange noise repeatedly sounding in her head, in the Thai master’s latest enigmatic revelation of ambiguous mental states.
- We Are Lady Parts
- It's A Sin
- The Pursuit of Love
- Feel Good
- Starstruck
- Anne Boleyn
- This Way Up
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK
- The Outlaws
- Line of Duty
What started as a Channel 4 comedy short has now been made into one of the must-see shows of the year. Created by Nida Manzoor, We Are Lady Parts is a six-part series about the formation of an all-women Muslim punk band, and every moment rules. You’ll meet Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), Ayesha (Juliette Motamed), Bisma (Faith Omole), and Momtaz (Luci...
FromQueer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies, It’s A Sinis a deeply moving five-part series from Channel 4 and streaming on HBO Max. Set in London in the ‘80s, the show hinges around five friends — Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Jill (Lydia West), Ash (Nathaniel Curtis), Roscoe (Omari Douglas),and Colin (Callum Scott Howells) — living together over a dec...
Directed by Emily Mortimer, BBC One's adaptation of Nancy Mitford's 1945 novel is an absolute riot for lovers of period dramas. Set between World Wars, The Pursuit of Love centres around the romantic whims of the audacious Linda Radlett (Lily James), as told by her close cousin Fanny Logan (Emily Beecham). But as Mashable’s Rachel Thompson points o...
Yes, Mae Martin is Canadian. Yes, this was once a Channel 4 show that is now a full-on Netflix production. ButFeel Good Season 2 counts on this list as it was entirely filmed and mostly set in the UK with a mainly British cast, and it's so damn bloody excellent I’m including it, alright? Building relationships, growing up, breaking free of emotiona...
It’s Notting Hill but not as you know it. Created by and starring New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo and filmed in London, Starstruckleans into the mess of liking someone new, especially when one of you is a movie star. A light, fun, six-episode series, Starstruck is a millennial rom-com about Jessie (Matafeo), a twenty-something working in London w...
We’ve seen many an onscreen representation of Anne Boleyn, some spectacular, some OK, and Channel 5's latest bout is the former, a feat achieved largely thanks to its lead, Queen & Slim star Jodie Turner-Smith. The three-part series takes place in England in 1536, when Anne is the most powerful woman in the country — with five months to live. For t...
Continuing its run with a second season every bit as brilliant as the first, Aisling Bea's sharply written comedy/drama about two sisters navigating life in London pulls at the heart strings while making us splutter with laughter. The tone is perfect, the performances (from Bea in the lead as Aine and Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan as her sister Shona...
Clap for the bing, bang, boooooong, the second season of Drag Race UK was one of the best of RuPaul's beloved show yet. From Lawrence Chaney's everything to Bimini Bon Boulash's haute couture journey (that amoeba look!), from Ginny Lemon’s shock voluntary exit to every single one of Tayce's talking head moments, and the United Kingdolls’ version of...
When you combine the powerful forces of The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant and acting legend Christopher Walken, good things are bound to happen. Splicing silly comedy with elements of crime thriller, Merchant's six-episode series sees seven mismatched strangers (Merchant and Walken alongside Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Darren Boyd, Clare Perk...
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and the wee donkey, Line of Duty was all anyone could talk about this year in the UK. When the sixth season of the beloved police corruption drama landed on BBC in March, Twitter exploded over the awaited "bent coppers" line delivered by Adrian Dunbar as one Superintendent Ted Hastings. Although the final episode polarised ...
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The Famous Paparazzo: Directed by Nicolae Margineanu. With Marcel Iures, Maria Ploae, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Repan. A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.
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- Drama, Action
- Nicolae Margineanu
- 1999-11-09
Compared with other Romanian films, many awarded at film festivals, Famous Paparazzo does not try to be philosophical and to impose a thesis. It is only current life in a tumultuous society, at ten years after what is known as the Romanian Revolution.
The Stand: Created by Josh Boone, Benjamin Cavell. With James Marsden, Odessa Young, Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg. After the world is in ruins, due to a man-made plague, a battle of Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
