Blu-Ray Review: El Sur
My favourite Spanish film is undoubtedly Spirit of the Beehive. Director Víctor Erice created a spellbinding tale about the inner life of a seven-year-old girl living in rural Spain. The…
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Blu-Ray Review: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari / From Caligari to Hitler
There are a small number of films which are universally accepted as changing cinema forever. Described as “the first true horror film” by the late great Roger Ebert, Das Cabinet…
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Incoming: Jackie
Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline…
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Incoming – Underworld: Blood Wars
Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) fights to end the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. Underworld: Blood Wars is out in cinemas…
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Incoming: Irreplaceable
For the past thirty years, Dr. Jean-Pierre Werner has been working as a general practitioner in the countryside, far away from any other medical facility. When he finds out that…
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DVD Review: Black Society Trilogy
Takashi Miike is a name which became synonymous with Asian Extreme film-making at the turn of the century. He made his name on the international stage with cult films such…
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Incoming: La La Land
La La Land tells the story of Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a…
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Blu-Ray Review: Metropolis
When Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was released in 1927 it almost single-handedly spawned a whole new genre of film: Science-Fiction. The original silent film spurred Osamu Tezuka to create a Japanese…
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Incoming: Manchester By The Sea
Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown,…
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Incoming: Young Offenders
Inspired by the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, two inner-city teenagers from…
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