Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a true labor of love for the filmmaker. We’ve seen him tackle mainstream blockbuster material with Pacific Rim and Hellboy, but this new, surreal love story has more in common with his adored 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth.

It holds the same gentle dark fantasy backbone, using dense colours to tell its story, which follows a mute woman, Eliza (Sally Hawkins), who works as a janitor in a mysterious government laboratory. She keeps in the background,…
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After beating Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in a photo-finish last weekend, Fox’s hit drama Hidden Figures continues to top the US box office chart with another excellent weekend for the film. In addition, Lionsgate’s La La Land continued to its hugely impressive run as it was buoyed by its seven Golden Globe wins last week. (via Box Office Mojo)

Grossing an estimated $20.4million (which could rise to $25million over the four-day Martin Luther King weekend), Hidden Figures should bring its…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story looks set to continue atop of the US box office this weekend but there’s set to be a photo finish to see if the intergalactic adventure will be able to keep Hidden Figures from knocking it off the top for the first time since its release. And if estimates are to be believed, it will be very fine margins that separate the two especially after some of the country suffered from “severe winter weather” meaning many grosses dropped from their original estimates. (via
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Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a true labor of love for the filmmaker. We’ve seen him tackle mainstream blockbuster material with Pacific Rim and Hellboy, but this new, surreal love story has more in common with his adored 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth.

It holds the same gentle dark fantasy backbone, using dense colours to tell its story, which follows a mute woman, Eliza (Sally Hawkins), who works as a janitor in a mysterious government laboratory. She keeps in the background,…
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An easy-to-watch drama that is profoundly moving in parts, and captivating in others.
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To evoke a sense of enchantment and tap into otherworldly themes is a challenge to pull off without veering into horribly saccharine territory, and it’s here Hazeldine fails spectacularly.
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Hidden Figures may well abide frustratingly to convention, as a film that could be described, affectionately, as pure Oscar fodder – but there’s a distinctive charm to this piece.
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An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forver when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.
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A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions.
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A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions.
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