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Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo

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Writer-director Matt Harlock looks into ego and insecurity in a smart film about a BritLit bad boy who goes down a grisly road This has nothing to do with Ian Dury; rather, it is a brisk, effective British indie thriller informed by the legend of Robert…

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