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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Business of Birth Control

A campaigner holding up a packet of birth control pills

When the combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), or birth control pill, was made available for contraceptive purposes at the start of the 1960s it triggered a sexual revolution for women.…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Happy Worker

Monday morning is a traumatic experience for millions of office workers around the world. Unless you’re one of the very lucky people who get to work in a field you…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Boney Piles

While Vladimir Putin might have started his official invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has been at war with its neighbour since 2014. Under the guise of ‘Russian-backed separatists’…

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Blu-Ray Review: Shaft

Hollywood has always been a very white place. Whilst some purposeful steps have been made this century, at least in front of the camera, there is still a long way…

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Blu-Ray Review: Black Girl

While you might think that domestic servitude is a thing of the past, it’s alive and kicking in many parts of the world. While it’s rife in regions such as…

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Film Review: A Man of Integrity

Iran, once a country known for progressive ideas and innovation, now has one of the most repressive regimes. The theocratic authoritarian state is run according to religious law. Many of…

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Blu-Ray Review: Execution in Autumn

Lee Hsing sadly passed away last year at the ripe old age of 91. The godfather of Taiwanese cinema made over thirty films in a career spanning over four decades.…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2022 Preview

After a couple of years in an online or hybrid form, Sheffield Doc/Fest once again returns in all its glory to the cinema screens of South Yorkshire on 23-28 June.…

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Film Review: Guidance

One of the many joys of science fiction, as a genre, is that it can be pretty much anything a human mind can imagine. This works particularly well in literature,…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Luis Buñuel was undoubtedly one of the most distinctive, and successful, European filmmakers of his generation. Spending much of his youth in Paris, the Spaniard was deeply involved with the…

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