Stories By Russell Bailey
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Film Reviews
/ 14 hours ago‘Wildwood’ review: Dir. Travis Knight (2026)
Fifteen years in the making, Wildwood sees Laika returns to the big screen with their first stop motion work since 2019’s...
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Film Reviews
/ 14 hours ago‘Ghosts: The Possession of Button House’ review: Dir. Simon Hynd (2026)
Three years after the creatives closed the door on Button House, the gang of Ghosts are back, this time making the...
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Film Festivals
/ 2 weeks ago‘Marama’ review: Dir. Taratoa Stappard [Bath Film Festival]
Taratoa Stappard marks himself as a talent to watch with a rich colonial nightmare, a brilliantly queasy work with a piercing...
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Film Festivals
/ 2 weeks ago‘Paper Tiger’ review: Dir. James Gray [LFF]
Director James Gray returns to cinema with his Cannes-debuting 80s set period piece about an American Dream falling apart that has...
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Film Festivals
/ 2 weeks ago‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’ review: Dir. Josef Kubota Wladyka [LFF]
After an acclaimed debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! foxtrots its way through the Fall festival season...
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Film Reviews
/ 2 months ago‘Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom’ review: Dirs. Steve Cox, Matthew Walker (2026)
Since his debut in 1995’s A Close Shave, Shaun the Sheep has become something of a mascot for Aardman Studios, thanks...
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Film Festivals
/ 2 months ago‘Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story’ review: Dir. Sarah Appleton [FrightFest 2026]
Have you ever heard of Charles Band? Well by the end of Sarah Appleton’s new documentary not only will you know...
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Film Festivals
/ 2 months ago‘Ghost in the Cell’ review: Dir. Joko Anwar [FrightFest 2026]
Mayhem ensures in a late-night curio as Indonesian director Joko Anwar unleashes supernatural violence on prisoners and guards a-like. Ghost in...
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Film Festivals
/ 2 months ago‘The Fright Stuff’ review: Dir. Mike Meyers [FrightFest 2026]
A solid documentary curio, The Fright Stuff, delves into one of the more niche (certainly for a UK audience) areas of...
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Film Reviews
/ 2 months ago‘Coyote vs Acme’ review: Dir. Dave Green (2026)
After a torrid 36 years, from a New Yorker article through an attempt to being reduce to the status of a...
