DVD Review: Overlord (Criterion Collection)
World War II has been depicted on screen in many ways. Often the most affecting images are ones which appear in documentaries such as Night and Fog and Night Will…
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Film Review: The Measure of a Man
With controversy still heavy in the air after the end of Cannes Film Festival last month it continues to confound and confuse in its attribution of awards. Whilst all the…
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Incoming – Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Versus is a funny, provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, Ken Loach, as he turns eighty and looks back at over…
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Film Review: Holding the Man
The impact and decimation caused by HIV/AIDS on the gay community during the ’80s and ’90s has been largely overlooked by those on the outside. Despite the deaths of high…
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Incoming: Love & Friendship
Based on the Jane Austen novella ‘Lady Susan’ and set in the 1790s, earlier than most Austen tales, Whit Stillman’s exquisite comedy of matchmaking and heart-breaking Love & Friendship concerns…
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DVD Review: Moonwalkers
There have been no shortage of conspiracy theories about the moon landings over the years. Ever since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the lunar surface, there’s have…
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Incoming: Money Monster
In the taut and tense thriller Money Monster, Lee Gates (George Clooney) is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall…
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Film Review: The Trust
Nicolas Cage is a very singular actor. Whilst he’s become something of a laughing stock on the internet, largely thanks to a raft of memes and video cuts, it’s easy…
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Film Review: Gray Matters
I love old buildings. I love history and I love beauty. I’ve never really ‘got’ modern architecture and design though. So when it comes to the subject I know very…
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Incoming: The Daughter
In the last days of a dying logging town Christian (Paul Schneider) returns to his family home for his father Henry’s (Geoffrey Rush) wedding to the much younger Anna (Anna…
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