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Blu-Ray Review – Police Story 3: Supercop

Before becoming the action-comedy sidekick of choice in Hollywood, Jackie Chan was arguably the leading light in Hong Kong martial arts cinema. Following Bruce Lee’s tragic death, producers tried to…

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Film Review: It Is in Us All

Since his breakthrough role playing opposite Florence Pugh in William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth, Cosmo Jarvis has rapidly become one of the more familiar leading men in British independent cinema. He’s…

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Film Review: In Front of Your Face

While most people have probably never heard of him, Hong Sang-soo will be a familiar name to cinephiles across the world. For decades now, the Korean filmmaker has been one…

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Film Review: The Ants and The Grasshopper

When we talk about climate change or global warming in the Western world, we almost always frame the debate in terms of our own futures. Very little attention is played…

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Film Review: To The Moon

While the story of Cain and Abel might be more instructional than factual, the relationship between two brothers can often be tense and strained. Especially when there are no other…

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Blu-Ray Review: Burning an Illusion

While Britain, relatively speaking, is a multicultural and diverse nation, this hasn’t always been reflected in popular culture. The experiences of the ‘Windrush generation’, and their children, have only been…

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Blu-Ray Review: Love

During the Cold War, communist states were great supporters of their filmmakers. As long as they were telling stories which aligned with their ideology, that is. Writers and directors regularly…

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Film Review: Bloody Oranges

The last decade has seen a wave of populism spread across the world, eking into all areas of politics and everyday life. France is no exception. While they might have…

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Film Review: Funny Pages

What do you want to be when you grow up? A question asked to generations of children and young people across the world and throughout history. If, like me, you…

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Film Review: House of Darkness

When it comes to identifying the problem, more often than not the answer is ‘men’. Whether that question is around safety on the streets, sexual assault, harassment in the workplace…

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