DVD Review: Dark Matter Season 1
When it comes to science fiction on TV the benchmark is undoubtedly Star Trek, which is almost impossible to compete with in terms of budgets and depth of universe. However,…
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DVD Review: Dag Season 1
Shrinks have been popular on American TV for many years now, and in many ways Norwegian comedy series Dag feels very much like it could have been made in the…
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DVD Review: Catch Me Daddy
Britain today is a multi-cultural and cosmopolitan place. It’s a haven for many and our population is made up of people from just about every nation of the world. There’s…
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DVD Review: L’Eclisse
Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the most important film directors Italy has ever produced. In many ways he redefined cinema in the period at the start of the 1960s. L’Eclisse is…
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DVD Review: Hard To Be A God
The writings of Stanislaw Lem and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are as important to Eastern European Science-Fiction as H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke are to the West. Andrei Tarkovsky most…
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DVD Review: Eyewitness
Since Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy took the publishing industry by storm and the character of Lisbeth Salander became a household name, there’s been a flourishing industry for Nordic Noir. Whilst…
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Blu-ray Review: The Hourglass Sanatorium
The fantastical and the bizarre are elements which make up much of Polish director Wojciech Has’ work. Unlike most of his peers, throughout his career he tended to avoid political…
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Blu-ray Review: Casanova
Federico Fellini cut his teeth in the Italian neorealism movement, beginning by writing screenplays (most notably for Rome, Open City) before stepping behind the camera. After a few inconsistent early efforts…
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Blu-ray Review: The Saragossa Manuscript
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a prime example of a brilliantly conceived frame-tale; stories found within a story. Written by Count Jan Potocki, it was published in the 19th…
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DVD Review: Medium Cool (Masters of Cinema)
Turbulent times often lead to some of the most groundbreaking cinema. 1968 was possibly the most unstable year in post-war American history. The US were on the back foot in…
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