Film Review: Hunt
The political situation in a modern East Asia always seems to be a little precarious, but it’s often tensions between South Korea and North Korea which set nerves on edge.…
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Tokyo Film Festival Review: Peacock’s Lament
While there’s undoubtedly a growing level of hardship in all European countries, I don’t think most people can grasp what absolute poverty looks like. Not just the inability to feed…
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Blu-Ray Review: Eve’s Bayou
Some people seem to have the ideal life. The big house, the great job, the beautiful partner and children. Popular, with a large number of glamorous friends and associates. Everyone…
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Raindance Review: Our River…Our Sky
Thanks to the reign of Saddam Hussein and two Gulf Wars, people in the West are much more familiar with Iraq than most of the Middle East. While the end…
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Film Review: Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums
By any measure, Omar Sosa is an unusual musician and composer. The highly-influential artist studied percussion at a prestigious conservatoire in Havana before carrying out his military service during the…
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Blu-Ray Review: Censor
While it seems like a long time ago now, the 1980s was a great period of change. The social and political unrest of the previous decade was replaced by a…
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Blu-Ray Review: Lost Highway
There’s nothing quite like a David Lynch mystery to get the old grey matter working. There’s no one quite like him in modern cinema and, despite some obvious influences and…
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Film Review: Holy Spider
Iran has been in the news a lot recently, and not for the right reasons. Sparked by the murder of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, who had been taken into…
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Film Review: A Game of Secrets
On the face of it, football agents play a vital role in the sport. Clubs and their rich owners have traditionally held all the cards when it comes to transfers…
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WIFF Review: Rock. Paper. Grenade
Following the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine regained its independence in 1991. While it was seen as a fresh new beginning, declaring itself politically neutral, as with many of the…
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