Film review: Frank (15)

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Frank
(15) 95mins
★★✩✩✩

Chris Sievey is a curious footnote in the history of alternative music and performance art. He was an animator, comedian and jobbing musician with various bands and appeared on a number of TV shows, mostly in the North West, during the '80s and '90s.

Sundance review: Obvious Child

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Obvious Child
(tbc) 83mins
★★★✩✩

Obvious Child opens with scatty and scatological stand-up Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) ruminating on gussets and female flatulence.

Sundance review: Dinosaur 13

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Dinosaur 13
(tbc) 105mins
★★★★✩

Up until 1990, only 12 fossils of Tyrannosaurus Rex had been recovered, the best being 40% complete. The one miraculously preserved in the badlands of South Dakota Hills was 80% complete and a scientific marvel.

Sundance review: Fruitvale Station

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Fruitvale Station
(tbc) 85mins
On general release on June 6
★★★★★

We know it's going to end badly. Genuine mobile phone footage captures the chaos and discord on the platform of the eponymous station where a bunch of lads are corralled by jittery transport police on New Year's Eve in Oakland.

Sundance review: The Voices

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The Voices
103mins
★★★✩✩

If the measure of a movie is the decibel of debate that follows the closing credits, then The Voices will surely rank among the most memorable at Sundance London.

Film review: The Last Days On Mars (15)

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The Last Days On Mars
(15) 98mins
★★★✩✩

Darwin On Mars. Now that's a movie I'd pay to see. The bushy beard crammed into a helmet. The plus fours dusted with red loam.

Spiral Notebook: The joy of Lutfur Rahman, direct to your living room

COMMENT

By Giles Broadbent

For those who observe Tower Hamlets Council closely or - for health and safety reasons - at arm's length, Monday's Panorama would have contained just the one shock amid the welter allegations of mismanagement, cronyism and self-promotion.