All articles by Nikki Baughan – Page 13
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Berlin cinema founder Verena von Stackelberg on how she got her start, her influences and her favourite festival
Programmer and founder of Berlin’s Wolf Kino cinema on who she admires in the industry and her discovery of indie film
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Reviews‘Evil Dead Rise’: Review
Motherhood is a bloody nightmare in Lee Cronin’s confident addition to the horror franchise
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FeaturesNew Talent Focus: ‘Raging Grace’ director Paris Zarcilla on spotlighting Filipino stories, UK diversity
The writer/director of SXSW award winner Raging Grace is inspired by the work of writers including Sally Wainwright, Sharon Horgan, Nathan Bryon and Craig Mazin
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Reviews‘Renfield’: Review
Nicolas Cage’s gleeful Dracula raises the stakes of this otherwise forgettable horror-action-comedy hybrid
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Reviews‘On The Edge’: CPH: DOX Review
A sole psychiatrist faces seemingly unsurmountable odds in a challenging hospital outside Paris
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Reviews‘Drifter’: BFI Flare Review
A young gay man embarks on a journey of discovery through Berlin’s progressive LGBTQ+ community
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Reviews‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves’: Review
Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez embark on an epic quest in this entertaining adaptation of the popular role-playing game
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Reviews‘Big Boys’: BFI Flare Review
A 14-year-old boy struggles with his sexuality in this sensitive coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘Angel Applicant’: SXSW Review
SXSW Documentary Competition winner is a portrait of Paul Klee by Ken August Meyer, who suffers from the same autoimmune disease as the artist
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Reviews‘Queendom’: CPH:DOX Review
Documentary follows queer performance artist and activist Gena Marvin as she dices with danger in Putin’s Russia
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Reviews‘Pay Or Die’: SXSW Review
Candid documentary about the exortionate cost of insulin in the US
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Reviews‘Raging Grace’: SXSW Review
An undocumented Filipina woman fights for her future in Paris Zarcilla’s genre-tinged UK-set debut
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Reviews‘Another Body’: SXSW Review
Eye-opening doc about the growing threat of online deepfake pornography
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Reviews‘Consecration’: Glasgow Review
A Scottish convent is rocked by murder in Christopher Smith’s religious horror starring Jena Malone
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Reviews‘Scream VI’: Review
Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega go up against New York Ghostface in this new instalment of the tired horror franchise
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Reviews‘Hummingbirds’: Berlin Review
Berlin Generation winner set in a Texas border town is a sparky, authentic documentary about immigrant life in a divided America
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Reviews‘Under The Sky Of Damascus’: Berlin Review
The testimonies of Syrian woman inform this hard-hitting documentary from the war-torn city of Damascus
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Reviews‘The Teachers’ Lounge’: Berlin Review
Leonie Benesch impresses as a teacher struggling to keep control in this school-set German drama
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Reviews‘Manodrome’: Berlin Review
Jesse Eisenberg is on a downward spiral in John Trengove’s unflinching portrait of toxic masculinity
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Reviews‘When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before’: Berlin Review
Sonja Heiss’ third feature explores three decades in the life of Joachim Meyerhoff and his psychiatrist father