Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Empire of Scents
You smell! – A common refrain in the playground. In truth, we all smell, but our olfaction, whilst taken for granted, plays a huge role in our enjoyment of food…
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Incoming: The Overnight
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’ Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends.…
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DVD Review: Appropriate Behaviour
Let’s be honest, most American romantic comedies are quite frankly awful. They mostly fall into two categories: cliche-riddled cheese-fests or over-melodramatic nonsense. We’re not much better ourselves in the UK.…
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Incoming: Hustlers Convention
In 1973, a fast-talking hustler by the name of Sport played a huge part in the birth of Hip Hop. Brought to life in the epic album, “Hustlers Convention”, by…
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Incoming: Concrete Clouds
It is 1997. Bangkok is in the grip of the Asian financial crisis. Mutt (played by Ananda Everingham), a currency trader in New York, is forced to make a hasty…
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Film Review: Station To Station
Cinema can be a powerful medium for artists to use as a tool to explore and examine their own creativity. The lines between film and art can often become blurred.…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Russian Woodpecker
On 26th April 1986, after a fault with one of the reactors, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR exploded spewing radioactive particles into the atmosphere. It remains…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Planetary
Climate change is a topic which seems to slip in and out of the news. Whilst idiotic mutterings abound about the pace and cause of global warming, Planetary puts our…
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Incoming: Natural Resistance
Four Italian winegrowers live a life we all dream of: Giovanna Tiezzi and Stefano Borsa in their converted 11th century monastery and winery in Tuscany find a way to grow…
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DVD Review: The Green Prince
There are many different angles of approach to storytelling in a documentary. Some directors opt for style over substance, whilst others indulge in a one-sided polemic. In The Green Prince,…
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