Ben Flanagan

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    Movie
    My Dinner with Alan: A Sopranos Session
    ★★★★★

    Something must be in the water with the gangster genre. At 161 minutes,...

    Ben Flanagan 22nd December 2020
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    Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
    ★★★★★

    “Style ain’t nothing but playing the same piece from beginning to end,”...

    Ben Flanagan 17th December 2020
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    Theatre
    Peter Pandemic at the Canal Cafe Theatre
    ★★★★★

    References to cultural moments of the year are a big part of what...

    Ben Flanagan 16th December 2020
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    Cup of Cheer
    ★★★★★

    As it has passed into December, there can no longer be any begrudging of those...

    Ben Flanagan 4th December 2020
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    Flint
    ★★★★★

    Anthony Baxter knows how to make an impact. The activist filmmaker behind You’ve Been Trumped,...

    Ben Flanagan 27th November 2020
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    Hillbilly Elegy
    ★★★★★

    Ron Howard is often referred to as a “safe pair of hands,” but Hillbilly Elegy,...

    Ben Flanagan 23rd November 2020
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    Top End Wedding
    ★★★★★

    From Muriel’s Wedding to A Few Best Men, the marriage ceremony often finds a cinematic...

    Ben Flanagan 20th November 2020
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    Collective
    ★★★★★

    In 2015 a Bucharest nightclub fire killed 27 people and injured another 180. There were...

    Ben Flanagan 16th November 2020
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    Nova Lituania
    ★★★★★

    Young Lithuanian filmmaker Karolis Kaupinis captures the machinations of border warfare in Nova...

    Ben Flanagan 6th November 2020
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    To the Ends of the Earth
    ★★★★★

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror films are his most enduring, from the global digital...

    Ben Flanagan 6th November 2020