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Visions du Réel Review: A Holy Family

Families are complicated units. Created through generations of complex and often contradictory interrelationships and experiences. Not all children are the same. Some want to fly the nest at the first…

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Visions du Réel Review: A Marble Travelogue

We live in a global consumer-driven world and while this might have been great for many in the West in terms of low prices, when the pandemic hit we saw…

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Film Review: See You Then

The culture wars have never been so pernicious and the constant transphobia which infests every online platform is horrendous. Despite what some bigots like to spout, the decision to transition…

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Blu-Ray Review – Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th

The late 1970s and 1980s was the era of the mega horror franchises. Innovations in filmmaking techniques and technologies, not to mention the growing turbulence within the world, made it…

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Film Review: Compartment No.6

It’s good to talk. Sometimes we meet the most fascinating people in the most unlikely circumstances. We also, occasionally, encounter characters we wish we hadn’t. On the face of it,…

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Film Review: Small Body

Until fairly recently, up to the Second World War or even later, Europe was in the firm grip of Christianity. Many wars were thought over it and countless lives lost,…

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Film Review: Let the Wrong One In

Dublin in drenched in history. The largest city in Ireland is full of beautiful architecture and echoes of a lively and fascinating past. Dating back to the Gaels or Vikings,…

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Film Review: Coppelia

Dating back to the Italian renaissance, ballet grew out of the courts over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Popularity peaked during the next hundred years, but it has retained its…

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CPH:DOX Review: 2nd Chance

There are many stupid and completely incomprehensible things about America for non-Americans to try and get their heads round but nothing is more baffling than the relationship the US has…

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Blu-Ray Review: In Cold Blood

Today, true crime is big business. Newsagents’ shelves are full of magazines, bookstores stuffed to the seams with bestsellers and streaming services providing a platform, and funding, for countless popular…

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