Tokyo Film Festival Review: Peacock’s Lament
While there’s undoubtedly a growing level of hardship in all European countries, I don’t think most people can grasp what absolute poverty looks like. Not just the inability to feed…
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Raindance Review: Our River…Our Sky
Thanks to the reign of Saddam Hussein and two Gulf Wars, people in the West are much more familiar with Iraq than most of the Middle East. While the end…
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WIFF Review: Rock. Paper. Grenade
Following the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine regained its independence in 1991. While it was seen as a fresh new beginning, declaring itself politically neutral, as with many of the…
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LFF Review: The Origin of Evil
They say money makes the world go round, but having a lot of it comes with a price. It puts a target on your back. People know you have it…
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LFF Review: Autobiography
Although we’re well into the twenty-first century now, corruption is just as rife as it has ever been. You could argue, in fact, that in many parts of the world…
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LFF Review: Crows Are White
There’s something almost ingrained within humans to look for a purpose. A higher calling. Something other than what’s in front of us in our daily lives. A compulsion to find…
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LFF Review: Jeong-sun
Growing up is never easy at the best of times but doing so in an era of smartphones, social media and unlimited data contracts must be an absolute nightmare. Our…
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LFF Review: Sick of Myself
It has been a profitable couple of years for Norwegian cinema and there are few hotter actors at the minute than Kristine Kujath Thorp. Indeed, since her breakout performance in…
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Grimmfest Review: Vesper
Science fiction is one of the difficult genres to get right on the big screen, particularly when it’s an adaptation of an existing property. The biggest hurdle to cross is…
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Grimmfest Review: The Harbinger
Those of us in the West are fortuitous to be living in an unusually stable period of history. While the current pandemic has shaken the world in ways which were…
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