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LFF Review: Under the Fig Trees

In many ways, workplaces seem to have their own ecosystems. Their unique hierarchies and relationship dynamics. There are the obvious power structures within any organisation, from the top down, which…

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LFF Review: Hidden Letters

While we hardly live in an egalitarian utopia in the West, women’s rights are a lot more secure than in many places across the globe. However, we need to remain…

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LFF Review: Coma

The COVID pandemic and the various lockdowns in different countries around the world created a problem for filmmakers. They couldn’t work in their usual way. Do they ride out the…

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VIFF Review: A Piece of Sky

Relationships are hard. You can meet someone, be swept off your feet, have a whirlwind romance and then look forward to the rest of your lives together. No one gets…

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Fantastic Fest Review: The Antares Paradox

Is there anybody out there? It’s a question which has tasked human minds for millennia. While we have looked to the stars for thousands of years, the need for something…

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GFF Review: No Looking Back

As the arguments over nurture versus nature rumble on, the likely ‘correct’ answer seems to be somewhere in the middle. We inherit the genes of our parents which influence many…

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GFF Review: The Execution

There’s something intrinsically fascinating about serial killers which drives people to fixate on them, read magazines and books about their killing sprees and become obsessed with getting inside their heads.…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Unidentified Objects

There’s something inherently American about a road movie. It probably has something to do with the distance between cities and a national obsession with the automobile. The same can be…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Lynch/Oz

It may not have seemed likely at the time, but when The Wizard of Oz was introduced to the world in 1939 it would go on to form one of…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Attachment

When we talk about mythology, it’s usually around the ancient Greeks or Romans. However, while much of it might have disappeared from modern religions, the major ones have a much…

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