This is all a bit familiar.

It’s all fun and games until Ben Kingsley tries to kill you

Bursting with humour, poignancy and a good healthy splash of blood, Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to In Bruges is a crazed masterpiece featuring standout performances from its leads. In many ways a barmier, bloodier companion piece to Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation, Seven Psychopaths is on one hand an intricately worked out, highly self-referential film that’s all about the creative process. On the other hand, it’s an excuse for a ragtag band of brilliant characters to stand around saying funny things to one another. And really, what more could you want?

Yes, we heard it through the grapevine.

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This Friday sees the welcome return of one of London’s most esoteric and intriguing short film festivals, with the Swedenborg Society hosting its third competition. Taking place at the Grade II listed Swedenborg House, the annual evening of short films sees a reliably experimental mix centered around themes of interest common to the Society’s figurehead and inspiration, Emanuel Swedenborg.

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Children largely apathetic.

How do you measure the success of a comedic film? Hilarity is such a subjective quality that it differs entirely from person to person. A truly great comedy, then, is one that can offer more than just jokes. Enter Sightseers, the latest work from Ben Wheatley, who has truly surpassed all expectations of what a comedy should be. It’s sweet, a little scary, delightfully surprising and totally endearing. Sightseers will have you smiling ear to ear and will give you far more than just the laughs.