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Short Stuff: LFF 2025
A collection of short writing on the film of LFF 2025!
Ben Patten
Oct 10, 20257 min read
'The Smashing Machine' is too nice.
'The Smashing Machine' is too nice.
Ben Patten
Oct 5, 20252 min read
'My Father's Shadow' and absenteeism.
'My Father's Shadow' has kicked off my LFF coverage. A wonderfully melancholic story of two boys' trip to Lagos with their father, and the revolution to come.
Ben Patten
Oct 1, 20253 min read
Christy: That Barbershop Feeling
Christy is a gloriously cute social drama that nails that barbershop feeling, somehow, while Irish children rap.
Ben Patten
Aug 21, 20254 min read
Eddington: A Shiny Gold Magikarp
Ari Aster's latest is bound to ruffle a few feathers: this incredibly modern TikTok western stands out from the crowd by attacking the closest target, whoever that may be.
Ben Patten
Aug 19, 20254 min read
'Sorry, Baby' needn't apologise.
This is the 'Year with the Good Movies'. No? Ah well.
Ben Patten
Aug 15, 20253 min read
Long Day's Journey into Night.
Where is the core to this gorgeous slice of neo film-noir?
Ben Patten
Jun 11, 20253 min read
'Megalopolis' should come with a question mark attached.
Francis Ford Coppola's final outing is one grandiose question poised to its audience: do you want a garish, experimental utopia? Or do you want movies to stay the same?
Ben Patten
Sep 28, 20243 min read
Twixt: The Great Eulogy
Francis Ford Coppola becomes egoless and creates what is one of cinemas finest digital achievements.
Ben Patten
Sep 23, 20243 min read
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