Film Review: The Measure of a Man
With controversy still heavy in the air after the end of Cannes Film Festival last month it continues to confound and confuse in its attribution of awards. Whilst all the…
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Film Review: Holding the Man
The impact and decimation caused by HIV/AIDS on the gay community during the ’80s and ’90s has been largely overlooked by those on the outside. Despite the deaths of high…
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Film Review: The Trust
Nicolas Cage is a very singular actor. Whilst he’s become something of a laughing stock on the internet, largely thanks to a raft of memes and video cuts, it’s easy…
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Film Review: Gray Matters
I love old buildings. I love history and I love beauty. I’ve never really ‘got’ modern architecture and design though. So when it comes to the subject I know very…
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Film Review: The Age of Consequences
There have been many films made about the dangers of climate change. Despite all the evidences to the contrary, there are still a vocal minority who either deny it’s existence…
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Film Festival Review: Derby Film Festival 2016
Now in its third year, Derby Film Festival shows no signs of slowing down. Which is apt given that the theme of this year’s festival was that of ‘journey’. Indeed,…
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Film Review: The Seventh Fire
Life in America has been nothing but consistent for Native Americans (I’m applying the self-identified term used in the film) since the Mayflower landed. From the first colonisers, through the…
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Film Review: In The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Not Afraid and the Two Eyes are Not Brothers
Experimental film-makers continually straddle the divide between art and film. Indeed, on many occasions it proves impossible to find where one starts and the other begins. There’s a certain art…
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Film Review: A Flickering Truth
War is always costly and the human toll is normally devastating to those countries, communities and groups involved. However, the cultural cost of conflicts is less widely reported. Terror groups,…
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Film Review: Kicking-Off
football fans are a peculiar lot and being rational doesn’t really go hand in hand with supporting a club. The anger, the humiliation, the indignity, the depression; anyone supporting one…
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