Sundance Review: The Pink Cloud
If you cast your mind back to the dim and distant past of 2019, the very thought of living in some kind of national lockdown was the province of pure…
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Sundance Review: Prime Time
Today, anyone who wishes to publicly air their thoughts, opinions or grievances can easily do so at the touch of a button. The internet has afforded us all a soapbox.…
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Sundance Review: Writing with Fire
There has never been a more dangerous time, in modern history, to be a journalist. Whilst the profession has been traditionally afforded protection and immunity, in many areas of the…
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Sundance Review: In the Earth
When Ben Wheatley first arrived on the scene, he was a breath of fresh air. Down Terrace passed most people by at the time but Kill List became an instant…
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Sundance Review: Sabaya
In summer 2014, daesh captured the town of Sinjar and most of the Sinjar district in Northern Iraq. The population fled into the mountains, including an estimated forty thousand Yazidis.…
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Sundance Review: President
The ‘resignation’ of President Robert Mugabe in 2017 ended a chapter in Zimbabwe’s history which had begun almost four decades earlier. Whilst the ZANU-PF leader might have been hounded out…
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Sundance Review: Mother Schmuckers
The film industry is often a family affair. There is probably no other area of the economy where this is so prevalent. While the insipid nepotism of children of the…
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Sundance Review: Son of Monarchs
The United States of America and Mexico have a long and complex history. Dating all the way back to the Texas Revolution in 1835, the socio-political relationship between the two…
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Sundance Review: Human Factors
Since the rise of the first great civilisation in Mesopotamia, there has probably never been a time in human history where we’ve been so disconnected. While we might now have…
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Sundance Review: In the Same Breath
2020 was the most difficult year, around the world, in post-war history. 2021 seems set to rival it, but with the approval of several vaccines at least there’s now a…
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