Incoming: The Escape
Tara loves her children deeply and to all those around her, her life is seemingly perfect. But Tara feels trapped. She knows there is something fundamentally missing. Something unfulfilled. Something…
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Blu-Ray Review: Birdman of Alcatraz
After watching Birdman of Alcatraz, you might be surprised to discover that Burt Lancaster’s performance didn’t get rewarded with an Oscar. On further investigation, 1963 was a special year for…
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Incoming: Sicilian Ghost Story
Set in a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, this is the story of adolescent innocence and painful reality. Giuseppe (Fernandez) is the son of a man…
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Film Review: The Apparition
Vincent Lindon has played a variety of roles since the beginning of the 1980s, none more intriguing than ‘very drunk man’ in Mathieu Kassovitz’s seminal La Haine. Whilst he’s been…
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Incoming: Apostasy
When the eldest daughter of a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses falls pregnant with her non-religious boyfriend the church tell her mother and sister to immediately cast her out. Apostasy is…
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Blu-Ray Review: Journeyman
With an array of impressive performances over the last two decades, Paddy Considine has proved himself to be one of Britain’s finest, most versatile and consistent acting talents. Some of…
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Film Review: Iceman
In 1991, a body was discovered by German tourists in the Central Eastern Alps. They initially thought it was the recently-deceased corpse of a mountaineer, but remarkably it was discovered…
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Incoming: The Nun
Jacques Rivette’s exquisite 1966 drama The Nun, one of the most breath-taking and emotional works of French cinema is newly restored in 4K. The Nun is out in cinemas from…
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Film Review: Cocote
Relatively speaking, the film industry in the Dominican Republic could be politely described as ‘under-developed’. Indeed, the country is better known for the ‘foreign’ films which have been filmed there…
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Film Review: Tracking Edith
There’s something rather romantic about the notion of being a spy, particularly in the way they are usually depicted in popular culture. The most famous example is, of course, James…
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