Film Review: Fortune Favours Lady Nikuko
Food plays an important role in Japanese culture. In many ways, a meal can be as much a ritual as simply performing a vital function of survival. Take sushi chefs,…
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Blu-Ray Review: Lux Aeterna
Watching a Gaspar Noé film can sometimes be as much as an endurance event as a pleasurable day at the pictures. Causing nightmares and undoubtedly triggering enough trauma to keep…
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Film Review: The Tsugua Diaries
The first scene of a film sets the tone. Brings the audience into the director’s vision and gives a taste of what is yet to come. A memorable opening sequence…
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Blu-Ray Review: Double Indemnity
It’s the oldest trick in the book. Beautiful young woman marries a rich older man, persuades him to take out a life insurance policy and soon after he, coincidentally, has…
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Film Review: 18 1/2
Watergate was, until recently at least, probably the biggest political scandal to rock the United States of America since World War II. It started with a break-in of the Democratic…
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Film Review: Between Two Worlds
The gig economy is one of the biggest blights of modern capitalism. Not only do workers have no job security, the pay is usually terrible and the work is rarely…
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Film Review: Luzzu
We humans are hunter gatherers who have relied on the land and the sea for sustenance and much more dating back to the first days of man. Today, most of…
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Blu-Ray Review: Vampyr
Today’s modern horror films, especially those which make it into multiplexes, tend to be full of flashy effects and polished to within an inch of their lives. Often featuring a…
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Film Review – The Quest: Nepal
Human beings seem hopelessly obsessed by challenges. To pit ourselves against whatever nature has to throw at us. To navigate the uncharted seas, scale the most difficult routes on treacherous…
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Film Review: Image of Victory
After World War II and the end of the British Mandate, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was meant to be a fresh start for a region which had…
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