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Blu-Ray Review: Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love & War

Whilst documentaries come in all shapes and sizes, it’s often the personal and intimate ones which carry the most resonance. Whilst focussing on a seemingly obscure or niche figure, film-makers…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton was arguably the greatest actor of his generation. He was definitely one of the most recognisable. A huge screen and stage presence, he won the Academy Award for…

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Blu-ray Review: Mandabi

Often referred to as the ‘father of African cinema’, Ousmane Sembène was certainly one of the original filmmakers to come out of the sub-Saharan region and arguably the most influential…

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Blu-Ray Review: Murder By Decree

There have been many portrayals of Sherlock Holmes on stage, TV, radio and on the big screen. Indeed, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation remains one of the most popular and…

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Blu-Ray Review: But I’m a Cheerleader

You can trace conversion therapy back to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, but Christianity has been attempting to repress ‘wicked’ feelings and thoughts for centuries. Whilst the horrendous practice…

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Blu-Ray Review: PTU

It makes sense that filmmakers turn to actors they can trust, time and time again. You see it happen a lot in cinema, directors and stars who collaborate frequently over…

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Courageous Cheung comes face to face with fear

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Blu-Ray Review: Encounter of the Spooky Kind

Chinese folklore is full of stories of ghosts, supernatural creatures and monsters. These spirits and apparitions are largely malevolent and play a prominent role in popular culture. Cinema is no…

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Blu-ray Review: Merrily We Go to Hell

Between 1927 and 1943, the year when she retired from feature filmmaking, Dorothy Arzner was the only female film director working in Hollywood. While the situation isn’t exactly perfect now,…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Hands of Orlac

Robert Wiene was one of the great directors of the German expressionist period at the beginning of the 20th century. Indeed, he’s responsible for one of the best and still…

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Blu-Ray Review: Flowers of Shanghai

Hou Hsiao-Hsien is arguably the greatest Taiwanese filmmaker of all time. He’s definitely the director who has had the most influence on a global scale, especially during the 1980s and…

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