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LFF 2016:A Monster Calls / The Handmaiden /The Red Turtle





Well bugger me with a candlestick and call me Karen if it isn't that time of year again: it's the London Film Festival, a whole entire festival of films about London Records, the label that was home to such stellar talent as The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top and Gay Dad. What's that? Oh, right. Ignore me. Here are some film reviews!



A Monster Calls


Juan Antonio Bayona's fantasy-drama is heavy
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