Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: otherworldly invaders come to Earth and summarily slaughter its inhabitants but thanks to the efforts of some ambitiously resilient Americans, the aggressive aliens are ousted and harmony is, ultimately, restored. Indeed, on paper 1996’s blockbuster hit Independence Day may as well have …
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After The Mother and Venus , director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi return for a third look at characters approaching their later years. Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan’s ageing English couple travel to Paris to reinvigorate their marriage, only to bicker their way down the Champs-Élysées as travel troubles …
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