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While Mangrove kicked off Small Axe – Steve McQueen’s five-part series of films centred on London’s West Indian community – with a powerful look at Black people’s struggle for civil jus...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/11/08/lovers-rock-review/

It’s in a wind-battered 1840s Lyme Regis that we meet Kate Winslet’s Mary Anning. She plies her trade as a palaeontologist, recovering fossils on the shore of the Jurassic Coast, finding sola...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/29/ammonite-review/

Acclaimed director Pedro Almodóvar’s latest The Human Voice – a short but sharp film adaptation of the theatre production of the same name – hinges on its central performance. Lucky for hi...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/28/the-human-voice-review/

Freewheeling slacker Kun (Zhou You) is the proud new owner of a smoking, broken-down mess of a Jeep, his spirit animal in vehicular form. Whilst the car is a direct representation of Kun as a per...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/24/striding-into-the-wind-review/

Regina King’s feature directorial debut is brimming with confidence, in its staging, in its script and above all else, in its powerful performances. The four iconic figures of unmatched charism...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/23/one-night-in-miami-review/

Cartoon Saloon’s celebration of Irish folklore is a visual stunner, gorgeously animated and popping with colour, its characters spilling from the restraints of their outlines. But it’s handcr...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/22/wolfwalkers-review/

Harry Macqueen directs Supernova with a gentle hand, putting performance first in this story of love and loss in the face of illness. And right he is to put faith in his actors, Colin Firth and S...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/19/supernova-review/

American Hustle meets Napoleon Dynamite.  Old Dolio (an unrecognisable Evan Rachel Wood) is born of grifters. Her parents named her after a lottery-winning homeless man with the hope of putting ...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/18/kajillionaire-review/

Quietly effective Aussie horror Relic’s messaging might not be the most subtle, but it at least operates with a lighter hand when it comes to its scares – rejecting cheap thrills to focus on ...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/17/relic-review/

Hunger to Shame, 12 Years a Slave to Widows. It’s the type of run most directors would dream of; Steve McQueen’s done it in his first four films. Clearly not one to rest on his laurels, he fo...

https://flicksandpieces.com/2020/10/16/mangrove-review/