BFI London Film Festival 2021
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage serves up a strangely affecting superhero sequel
Weird humour and repetitive plot points aside, Tom Hardy’s monster cum-hero-duo of Eddie Brock and Venom creates a believable emotional core for this action-packed sub-franchise.
By Kim Newman
London After Dark: the nocturnal 1960s films that inspired Edgar Wright... and how their locations look today
By Adam Scovell
Il Buco takes viewers on a meditative dive through the caves of Calabria
By Ben Nicholson
Sci-fi pioneer, German ‘James Bond’ and star of one of the world’s worst films: celebrating George Nader on his centenary
By Chloe Walker
“You throw Black people in a western and it’s like sci-fi”: Director Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall
By Christina Newland
Curse of The Chippendales explores the gender dynamics of stripping in the 1980s
By Rebecca Harrison
Where to begin with Małgorzata Szumowska
By Alex Ramon
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