DVD Review: Manakamana
If you take the cable car up to The Manakamana Temple in Nepal, it will take you eleven minutes. I know this because in Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’s film…
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Incoming: Selma
Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting…
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DVD Review: The Way He Looks
There have been many coming of age films over the years, with the best ones often approaching the subject from a particular angle. The magnificent We Are The Best did…
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Incoming: Amour Fou
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a…
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Film Review: Inherent Vice
As you’re probably already aware, Inherent Vice is the hotly anticipated new film from Paul Thomas Anderson. His Magnolia is one a small handful of films I can directly attribute…
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Incoming: Pelo Malo
Junior is a nine-year-old boy growing up on a housing project in Venezuela with his recently widowed mother, Marta, and his baby brother. Searching for an identity without a father…
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DVD Review: In Order of Disappearance
Stellan Skarsgård is one of a handful of actors from non-English speaking countries to forge a long term career in Hollywood over the last couple of decades. Parts in The…
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Incoming: Inherent Vice
When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in…
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DVD Review: The Haunting Of Black Wood
I’ll open this review with a confession: Apart from confusing snatches whilst trying to eat my tea, I’ve never seen Lost. That said, I do enjoy something a bit different.…
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Film Season Preview: The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Since 2004, the Japan Foundation, London has organised a Japanese film programme in close partnership with distinguished film venues and programme advisors in the UK. Each year, a programme of…
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