Incoming: I, Daniel Blake
Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a…
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Film Review: Phantom Boy
The production of animated films has been dominated by North America and Japan for decades. Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks and Studio Ghibli have monopolised the market. However, in recent years European…
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Blu-Ray Review: Burnt Offerings
Haunted houses have proven to be a staple of the horror genre ever since House on Haunted Hill was released back in 1959. Classics such as The Haunting and The…
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Blu-ray Review: Christine
The American love affair with the motor car is one which always endures. Ever since Henry Ford revolutionised the manufacturing process, owning one has been an integral part of achieving…
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Incoming: Kate Plays Christine
Filmmaker Robert Greene cleverly forgoes your standard talking-head-and-sound-bite approach to nonfiction storytelling, instead choosing to employ Kate Lyn Sheil as a conduit to understanding an impossibly complex issue. Committed to…
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DVD Review: Looking for Richard
Al Pacino is one of the most recognisable faces in film for those of us the wrong side of thirty. Whilst De Niro’s career has gone down the rabbit hole,…
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Blu-ray Review: Don’t Look Back
Musical documentaries tend to fall into two camps. Normally, they’re retrospective stories of band or artists, using interviews and archive footage. There’s also the concert film, which nowadays tend to…
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Incoming: Inferno
Inferno continues the Harvard symbologist’s adventures on screen: when Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will…
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DVD Review: The Lion in Winter
Tales of kings, queens, princes, and the games of thrones have proved popular across the centuries. Whether it’s Shakespeare writing about Henry V or Richard II, of a rather popular…
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Incoming: American Honey
Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American mid-west selling Magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding…
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