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Film Review: What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?

Race relations in the United States of America are probably at their lowest levels since the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. 2017 was a particularly turbulent year,…

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Film Review: Distant Constellation

With the rapid pace of progress in science, technology and medicine, along with the absence of any recent major wars, life expectancy is steadily rising around the world. It’s now…

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Film Review: Cocote

Relatively speaking, the film industry in the Dominican Republic could be politely described as ‘under-developed’. Indeed, the country is better known for the ‘foreign’ films which have been filmed there…

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Film Review: Erase and Forget

I can’t think of any country in the world which has the same kind of fascination with the ‘all-action hero’ as the United States of America. Whilst Action Man may…

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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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From an old record box: Grant Lee Buffalo – Buffalondon Live

The early nineties: years of massive change in my listening habits and, really, a first proper awakening to music, fuelled by the powerful indie spirit of both UK and US alternative rock…

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