STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Reviews of Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters; Hamilton; Inheritance; Burden, and Family Romance, LLC
STIRRING: Hamilton
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (12A)
Directed by Anthony Bueno
4*
TWELVE years in the making, this labour of love celebrates how and why the original Ghostbusters has become a much-loved classic.
Film-makers and siblings Anthony and Claire Bueno interviewed people involved in the film, from cast to crew, to get an insider's view on how this ground-breaking comedy sci-fi, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and directed by Ivan Reitman, came to be made.
It is gripping and eye-opening to see and hear the cast and special-effects crew reminiscing, particularly accounts of how they had to deliver in record time as post-production was cut short by six months.
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