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Film Review: Lone Wolf and Cub (Criterion Collection)

Manga plays a significant role in Japanese culture, which is difficult for outsiders to fully grasp. Several series have managed to embed themselves into the public consciousness, along with TV…

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Blu-Ray Review: Repulsion

Catherine Deneuve has been one of the most recognisable female faces in European cinema for decades now. However, her three best performances came in a short period between 1964 and…

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Incoming: Age of Shadows

Based on real events, the action takes place during Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1920s, when the fight for freedom became as dangerous as it was highly sought-after. Song Kang-ho plays…

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Blu-Ray Review: Pieces

Today, Spanish horror cinema is very much on the map. Films such as The Devil’s Backbone, Thesis, Rec, Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage have seeped into mainstream consciousness. However, back…

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Film Review: The Eyes of My Mother

Nurture versus nature is a ripe topic for plunder in genre cinema. Are some people born evil or are they just a product of the world around them? In Nicolas…

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Incoming: Aquarius

Clara is a music critic retired and lives in “Aquarius” palace, overlooking the splendid promenade of Recife. A real estate company has already purchased all the apartments of the building…

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Blu-ray Review: My 20th Century

As an only child, the idea of connections between siblings is one I can only vaguely comprehend on a theoretical level let alone identical pairs. However, it’s a concept which…

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Incoming: Life

Life tells the story of the six-member crew of the International Space Station that is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the…

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Film Review: All This Panic

Let’s be honest, I knew nothing about teenage girls when I was a teen, let alone now. The moral panic around their sexualisation, drug use, underage drinking and ‘relentless’ sex…

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DVD Review: The Edge of Seventeen

Whilst most of us may wish to be younger, there are very few who’d want to revisit those difficult teenage years. Coming-of-age is a time of uncertainty, confusion, fear, anxiety…

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