Sky Peals review: Understated sci-fi drama traverses themes of immigration and identity

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Sky Peals review: Understated sci-fi drama traverses themes of immigration and identity

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Umer (Faraz Ayub) wonders if he is not of this world

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Moin Hussain
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In film and TV, aliens have come in all shapes and sizes. Among them are the seven-limbed floating heptapods of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and, much less ethereal, Adam Sandler’s talking arachnoid companion in Spaceman. Thanks to the Alien franchise alone onscreen extraterrestrials gained an additional two dozen guises.

It is slightly more unusual for them to assume human form, as is the case in…

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