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Perhaps one is doomed to be eclipsed when playing Princess Margaret, but Vanessa Kirby more than held her own in the first two seasons of The Crown. The perfect foil for Claire Foy's prissy and dutiful young queen, Kirby's Margaret fulminated on the sidelines, craving the spotlight she managed to attract all too often with her rock 'n' roll lifestyle and her appalling taste in men. She has been replaced in recent seasons by Helena Bonham-Carter as Margaret moves through a painful middle age, but The Crown's success has raised all boats, and eye-catching turns in Mission: Impossible - Fallout ...

David Osit's documentary, Mayor   89 min. Dir: David Osit Local government is a fraught juggling act in the city of Ramallah, once the headquarters of Yasser Arafat and now de facto capital of what’s officially known as Palestine. This is different, of course, from their claimed but contested capital, Jerusalem, barely more than 10 miles to the south – a place Ramallah’s residents can only see, without being permitted to visit, just like the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The fine documentary Mayor, by American filmmaker David Osit, is an access-all-areas portrait of the man who h...

▶︎  Mayor is available in UK cinemas and online on 1 January 2021. Over a blanket of plush strings on the soundtrack, seasonal decoration glitters at the Café de la Paix. Inside, a neatly-coiffed, besuited middle-aged man sips a single espresso at his table. We could be in any suave European capital, except that the preceding sequence has outlined the post-1967 geo-political conundrum that is Ramallah – so here we are in Palestinian territory on the West Bank, now cowed by Israeli occupation. The lone gentleman, and subject of this sympathetic fly-on-the-wall portra...

‘Antigone’ and ‘Stand!’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque Updated Dec 30, 2020; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque -- beginning Jan. 1 -- will be screening a powerful and apt modern adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone.” The tragedy is set in Montreal, where an Algerian refugee family’s 17-year-old daughter fights against law and authority. Sophie Deraspe’s film was the winner of five 2020 Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture and Best Actress. Also on Jan. 1, Cleveland Cinem...

‘10 Days with Dad’ and ‘Kill It and Leave This Town’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque Updated Dec 23, 2020; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the spirit of “Mr. Mom,” director Ludovic Bernard’s new comedy “10 Days with Dad” finds a corporate dad over his head when his wife goes on holiday leaving him responsible for the house and their four kids. Beginning on Dec. 25, Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee, the Capitol and Chagrin Cinemas) is screening the French family movie, which stars Franck Dubosc, Aure Atika and Alice David. Also on De...