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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Film Review – Phoenix
The main events of World War II have been extensively documented, but unless you were there at the time it’s hard to understate the fallout following the end of the…
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Film Review: Heaven Adores You
Unassuming. It’s probably the best word to describe Elliott Smith. Whilst his music continues to entrance anew generation of music fans ten years on since his tragic death, the man…
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DVD Review: The Sleeping Room
British horror is a difficult beast, with low budgets and tired tropes often overly prevalent. In John Shackleton’s debut feature he tries to do something slightly different, and whilst it…
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DVD Review: The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday in many ways marked the end of an era for a certain style of film making. The ’70s was a bumper period for gritty cinema on…
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Incoming: Girlhood
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of 3 free-spirited girls. She changes…
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DVD – Exodus: Gods and Kings
You can’t beat a good Biblical Epic. There are the classics such as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur along with the more recent unrelenting Passion of Christ and the unfairly…
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Film Review: Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
Before getting entangled with hairy-footed hobbits, Peter Jackson began his impressive film making odyssey knee-deep in gore with the brilliant Bad Taste and Braindead. There’s a certain Antipodean sense of…
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