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Blu-Ray Review: No Way Out

Joseph L. Mankiewicz was a true Hollywood all-rounder. As a writer he penned forty-eight screenplays during his career, winning numerous awards and accolades. He produced over twenty films, including The…

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Incoming: Hereditary

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Colette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and their two children begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly…

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EP Review: Jenny Hval – The Long Sleep

Popular music’s relationship to Art is complicated, at least as far as the term applies to music which people actually want to listen to. Numerous genres, from Punk to Pop…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Into the Okavango

Africa is a continent which continues to be picked apart for its natural resources, whether that’s precious metals and minerals or its vast array of magnificent wildlife. Botswana is renowned…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Preview: Worlds of Ursula K. le Guin

In the male dominated world of science-fiction literature during the 1960s and 1970s, Ursula K. le Guin was an undoubted star. Considered by many to be one of the most…

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A Buyers Guide to Electric Light Orchestra

The Move were one of those psyche-pop acts of the late 60s that were able to release great singles, but albums success always seemed to elude them. Originally formed in…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: A Northern Soul

I lived in Hull in the late ‘90s and for one reason or another saw quite a lot of the city. Apart from having the ‘biggest council housing estate in…

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Incoming: McQueen

Mirroring the savage beauty, maverick originality and vivacity of his design, “McQueen” is an intimate revelation of Alexander [Lee] McQueen’s own personal and professional world, both tortured and inspired. It…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Preview: What is Democracy?

Democracy is good. For decades this has been a universal truth widely accepted by those living in a country with a democratic system of government, and even those who do…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Defiant Ones

In 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field. He went on to become one of the…

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Blu-Ray Review: No Way Out

Incoming: Hereditary

EP Review: Jenny Hval – The Long Sleep

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Into the Okavango

Sheffield Doc/Fest Preview: Worlds of Ursula K. le Guin

A Buyers Guide to Electric Light Orchestra

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: A Northern Soul

Incoming: McQueen

Sheffield Doc/Fest Preview: What is Democracy?

Blu-Ray Review: The Defiant Ones