Film Review: Spaceship Earth
With the success of SpaceX and a renewed global commitment to go ‘back to the stars’, people are beginning to dream again about the prospect colonising another planet. One of…
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Film Review: Weathering with You
Outside of Asia, anime is often discounted as being childish or considered something less than live-action films. It’s not always taken seriously, and when it does get coverage is regularly…
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Blu-Ray Review: Hanagatami
Film-making is a strange vocation. Unlike music, where your first album is often the culmination of a lifetimes’ work, directors can make film after film before bringing their pet project…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: King Rocker
There’s often no rhyme or reason why one band makes it whilst another never quite takes off. So many factors are at play but it can come down to nothing…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Me and the Cult Leader
On 20 March 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult, orchestrated five coordinated attacks on the Tokyo Metro. During rush hour they released Sarin gas on three different…
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Film Review: A White, White Day
Icelandic cinema is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment. Whilst its golden age was perhaps the turn of the century (101 Reykjavik, Nói albinói, Stormy Weather), the likes…
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Film Review: The Booksellers
Some people argue that in life there are two kinds of people. Those who love books, to whom reading is a part of life. And then there are those who…
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Blu-Ray Review: Force 10 from Navarone
Whilst things might be slowly changing, Hollywood has been a boys’ club for a very long time. This has been reflected in the cinema it has produced, where’s there’s often…
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Film Review: On the Record
You’ve probably never heard of Drew Dixon. She was an A&R Executive at Def Jam Recordings and Vice President at Arista Records during the 1990s, working with the likes of…
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Film Review: Fanny Lye Deliver’d
After Charles I lost his head, England, and the rest of ‘the Commonwealth’ for that matter, was thrown into turmoil. Whilst Cromwell’s New Model Army was exercising their puritanical zeal…
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