Film Review: Tokyo Tribe
Shion Sono is not what you’d call an unadventurous director. Suicide Club, Noriko’s Dinner Table and Strange Circus built him a cult following with horror aficionados. He then stunned the…
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Incoming: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A love story between two tortured souls In the Iranian Ghost town called Bad City, A place that reeks of death and loneliness, where a lonesome vampire is preying on…
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Film Review: The Supreme Price
Nigeria is a huge country. Populated by over 160 million people and boasting a landmass which is significantly bigger than Mainland Europe, the most visited country in Western Africa is…
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Film Review: Clouds of Sils Maria
There’s been quite a few “backstage” films of late. The most famous example is Birdman, but other notable entries include Map To The Stars and Venus in Furs. Olivier Assayas…
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Film Review: A Fuller Life
n many ways, screenwriter and filmmaker Samuel Fuller was a maverick of American cinema. He staunchly avoided the Studio system and mainstream Hollywood, making films which were controversial and uncompromising.…
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Film Review: The Tribe
Cinema is a medium where expression and visceral action can often speak louder than words. In Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s debut film, The Tribe, the Ukrainian director takes this to a new…
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Incoming: A Royal Night Out
May 8th, 1945 – V.E. Day… a nation celebrates the victorious end to a long and costly war. Cloistered away in Buckingham Palace two princesses peer out longingly at the…
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Incoming: Rosewater
he feature film Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival,” written by the BBC…
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DVD Review: Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut
Lars Von Trier has made his reputation by going to places where other directors fear to tread. He first came to international prominence through the tear-jerking Breaking The Waves and…
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Film Review: Still
Say what you want about British independent films and TV, we’ve got some great actors, directors and technical professionals. Still, could have easily sunk into sub-par soap opera, but instead…
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