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Film Review: Initiation

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Blu-Ray Review: Carla’s Song

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Film Review: Zana

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Paul Newman was one of the most iconic actors of the 1960s. The decade was bookmarked by The Hustler and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but it’s arguably Cool Hand Luke which remains his most memorable and powerful performance. Whilst he found fame in front of the camera, Newman also directed five feature films. …

We live in a world of huge special effects budgets, CGI and increasingly implausible action sequences. The good old days of men, muscles and one-on-one combat are a fading memory, even when some of those men keep clinging on to a career as they reach retirement age. Jason Momoa is a throwback in many senses. …

Tennessee Williams was without doubt one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. There are few, if any, dramatists who have had so much of their work adapted for the big screen. His plays have become synonymous with some of the greatest moments of American cinema. Taylor and Newman in Cat on a …

Jules Feiffer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist and cartoonist who also won an Academy Award for best animated short for the film Munro. Whilst he achieved the majority of his fame as a cartoonist, Feiffer was also an accomplished author, playwright and screenwriter. As well as writing a number of his own plays, he’s scripted …

When it comes to crime drama, modern British TV series often offer a no-nonsense approach to investigating murders. In many way, that’s part of their charm. Real people trying to unmask real criminals. Life isn’t always that straightforward, however. Neither is the human brain. It’s liable to play tricks on us. With the right stimulus, …

The Middle East is a mess. One largely created or exacerbated by Western influences and interventions. In countries like Iraq, where actions have often been driven by political motives, good and bad, colonial powers are very good at disappearing leaving those remaining to clear up the mess of deal with the chaos left in our …

Whilst he railed against being typecast as a horror director, James Whale is unquestionable one of the most important pioneers of genre cinema. He virtually (re)invented Gothic Horror and had a huge influence on directors in the 1960s and ‘70s. Today, his depiction of Mary Shelley’s macabre creation in the 1931 film Frankenstein is the …

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is undoubtedly one of the greatest living Japanese directors. With Tokyo Sonata and Journey to the Shore he released two of the most impressive Japanese art-house films of the 21st Century. However, that’s not even half the story. That was just a sabbatical from what he does best; genre cinema. Indeed, my favourite …

Avengers: Infinity War brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. Avengers: Infinity War opens in cinemas on …

The teenage years are one of the most difficult periods in everyone’s lives. Memories of that period can resemble a horror film which is too traumatising to ever think about, let alone mention. It must be doubly-hard going through it as a girl. Without even contemplating the the myriad changes taking hold of the body, …