LFF Review: So Long, My Son
When the Communist Party decided to relax the one-child policy in 2013, and subsequently changed the national family planning to two children per couple, it marked the end of a…
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LFF Review: Burning Cane
There has been a reckoning over the last few years and finally we’re beginning to see black voices being given the opportunity to make the films they want to make.…
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LFF Review: Adoration
We all remember our first love. Even though it probably ended in tears, lies, betrayals and recriminations in the playground. However, as we go through life those bad memories seem…
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Blu-ray Review: The Dark Half
I, for one, believe that humans aren’t born intrinsically good or evil. Whilst nature obviously plays some part, nurture has a much bigger influence on defining the kind of person…
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Film Review: The Hummingbird Project
With The Hummingbird Project, Canadian writer-director Kim Nguyen has created possibly the first stock market fraud thriller to be set predominantly in a rural environment. Nguyen, who was previously nominated…
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LFF Review: Martin Eden
Jack London was one of the most important and influential American novelists of his generation. His writings embodied the thirst for adventure which epitomised the era but also were a…
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LFF Review: The Whistlers
The Romanian new wave is arguably the most interesting current movement in modern cinema. Of those directors working under this banner, Corneliu Porumboiu is possibly the most interesting. With award-winning…
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LFF Review: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Whilst, to the outside world, the movie business might seem full of glitz and glamour, there’s a lot of sweat and tears which go into making a film. Much of…
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LFF Review: Only the Animals
The French have a knack when it comes to stylish and sexy thrillers. There’s something about the Gallic temperament which provides for scintillating and electric cinema. Over the years we’ve…
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LFF Review: Talking About Trees
The cinema of Sudan is almost completely unknown on a world stage. Whilst not overly surprising for an impoverished African country, this hasn’t always been the case. Years of oppressive…
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