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Rossif Sutherland


Wars provide fertile backgrounds for genre cinema given the natural horror generated by the brutalities and atrocities of conflict. World War I was particularly arduous, with thousands upon thousands of men dying just to gain a few inches of ground. If the bullets didn’t kill you the disease or inhospitable conditions would. Trench warfare was …

Every so often a news story pops up about a Westerner being arrested in Southeastern Asia. These are normally backpackers or students on gap years and it’s normally in the area formerly known as Indochina. Whether it be Vietnam, Thailand, Laos or Cambodia, the reason behind the arrest it’s almost always for drug offences. In …