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LFF Review: The Whistlers

The Romanian new wave is arguably the most interesting current movement in modern cinema. Of those directors working under this banner, Corneliu Porumboiu is possibly the most interesting. With award-winning…

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LFF Review: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Whilst, to the outside world, the movie business might seem full of glitz and glamour, there’s a lot of sweat and tears which go into making a film. Much of…

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LFF Review: Only the Animals

The French have a knack when it comes to stylish and sexy thrillers. There’s something about the Gallic temperament which provides for scintillating and electric cinema. Over the years we’ve…

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LFF Review: Talking About Trees

The cinema of Sudan is almost completely unknown on a world stage. Whilst not overly surprising for an impoverished African country, this hasn’t always been the case. Years of oppressive…

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LFF Review: Fire Will Come

Crime and punishment. It’s a tale as old as the hills. You do the crime and pay the time. When you’re released, your slate is wiped clean. Fully rehabilitated and…

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LFF Review: The Perfect Candidate

Despite being classed as a friendly nation (aka arms and oil) by most of the Western world, Saudi Arabia has a truly appalling human rights record. Whist the rather Biblical…

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Film Review: Itsy Bitsy

We humans have a strange and wonderful array of phobias. These range from the everyday, such as the fear of flying or needles, to something debilitating like agoraphobia. Probably the…

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Grimmfest Review: Rabid

David Cronenberg will forever have a unique place is genre cinema. The Canadian made his name making intelligent, visceral and challenging horror and science fiction films. More often than not,…

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Film Review – Tehran: City of Love

Iran has found itself in the news a lot recently. If it’s not the breakdown of the nuclear deal or maritime piracy it’s the alleged attacks on Saudi Arabia. It’s…

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Album Review: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ debut album, ‘The First Born is Dead’, opened with the formidable track ‘Tupelo’, a roaring, thundering peon to the birth of Elvis Presley, born…

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LFF Review: The Whistlers

LFF Review: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

LFF Review: Only the Animals

LFF Review: Talking About Trees

LFF Review: Fire Will Come

LFF Review: The Perfect Candidate

Film Review: Itsy Bitsy

Grimmfest Review: Rabid

Film Review – Tehran: City of Love

Album Review: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen