Film Review: Station To Station
Cinema can be a powerful medium for artists to use as a tool to explore and examine their own creativity. The lines between film and art can often become blurred.…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Russian Woodpecker
On 26th April 1986, after a fault with one of the reactors, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR exploded spewing radioactive particles into the atmosphere. It remains…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Planetary
Climate change is a topic which seems to slip in and out of the news. Whilst idiotic mutterings abound about the pace and cause of global warming, Planetary puts our…
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DVD Review: The Green Prince
There are many different angles of approach to storytelling in a documentary. Some directors opt for style over substance, whilst others indulge in a one-sided polemic. In The Green Prince,…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Cartel Land
The War on Drugs is not a conflict that either America or Mexico are winning. Mexican drug cartels control 90% of cocaine which enters the US market. Whilst the Mexican…
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Incoming: London Road
After two sell-out runs at the National Theatre, the feature film adaptation of London Road reunites the award-winning team, directed by Rufus Norris. London Road is out in cinemas on…
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Film Review: Queen and Country
In 1987 John Boorman directed Hope and Glory. It was a semi-autobiographical account of a young boy growing up in London during The Blitz. It earned him Academy Award nominations…
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Film Review: Black Coal, Thin Ice
Offbeat is a word regularly used in relation to Asian cinema, and there’s often much lost in translation. Black Coal, Thin Ice, the new film by Diao Yinan, the director…
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Film Review: Shooting For Socrates
We love to back the underdog, especially when it comes to sport. Football has many tales of heroism, from FA Cup giant killings to the meteoric rise of the likes…
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Film Review: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
I’m showing my age here, but I miss video. The humble VHS may have been as compact as a brick, have a picture which often resembled the end of the…
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