Do you remember Short Term 12 from a couple years back? No? Then right a disastrous wrong and track it down; it’s one of the best independent dramas in recent memory, and well worth your time. What it’s most notable for is a tremendous performance from Brie Larson (The Gambler, Trainwreck) which, of course, failed to get an Oscar nod – but she’s back with Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretton for his next feature, The Glass Castle. The two of them teaming up again is enough to make…
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The result has a fair deal in common with a literal glass castle. It might’ve been made with good intentions, but was destined to collapse.
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Now the key film festivals are behind us, we’re starting to get a sense for what films may be considered on awards terms, as we creep ever closer to the biggest ceremonies of the year. Which means one thing – movies are getting better again (yay!). Here’s our list of the five you simply won’t want to miss this October…

Blade Runner 2049

I mean, we all sort of expected this would be good, but I don’t think we could’ve anticipated it being this good. Critics are going crazy for…
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A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who’s an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children’s imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.
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