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Friday January 19

Film: THE KITCHEN

The brilliant and talented British actor Daniel Kaluuya, an Oscar-winner for and Jordan Peele’s museand turns his hand to directing in this sci-fi drama. It’s set in a dystopian London where all social housing has been eliminated and inequality is at its widest. Kaluuya’s co-director is Kibwe Tavares, a film-maker and architect who was a director on TV series London gets a cyberpunk look in which is the name given to the last remaining community that refuses to leave. Kane Robinson stars as a musician looking for a way out, and youngster Jedaiah Bannerman is a lost kid looking for his mum.

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