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Director Mel Gibson probably made Flight Risk with Netflix’s “90-minute movies” slot in mind (in fact he overshot – it lasts 91 minutes). It hits the spot of “escapist no-brainer action flick” by ...
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The quandary is this. Middlesbrough singer Amelia Coburn made one of my favourite albums of last year, her debut, Between the ...
Serious realisation of the seven often thorny Martinů string quartets is a major undertaking. When I spoke to Veronika ...
It took a while for journalists to identify the chain-smoking, Machiavellian figure who was a permanent presence at early ...
An opening sequence of a drone flying over a busy street in Baghdad, followed by a huge explosion that leaves many casualties ...