Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Review: One for the Road
Since Henry Ford revolutionised the manufacturing process and greatly reduced the cost of buying a car, America has been obsessed with automobiles and dreams of the open road. This love affair has been translated onto the big screen, with the likes of Thelma and Louise, Sideways, Rain Man and Old Joy all proving firm favourites. …
Sundance Review: Taming the Garden
With every minute, hour, day and week that goes by, the richest and most powerful people in the world simply just get richer and more powerful. Whilst the poor just get poorer. This polarisation grows exponentially, year on year. Money breeds money and with it a seemingly unlimited ability to do whatever you like. The …
Sundance Review: At the Ready
During the 2016 Presidential election campaign Donald Trump repeatedly turned his attention to the US/Mexico border; most famously with his white elephant border wall. Since entering the race and throughout his subsequent term in office, he has repeatedly denigrated Mexicans as ‘drug dealers, criminals and rapists’; ramping up detentions of adults and children. This rhetoric …
Sundance Review: On the Count of Three
Despite the amount of progress that has been made, particularly in the developed world, it’s still often considered a social taboo to talk about suicide. This is especially the case in countries which are still highly religious. We live in a world where people taking their own lives is still a far too common occurrence. …
Sundance Review: The Pink Cloud
If you cast your mind back to the dim and distant past of 2019, the very thought of living in some kind of national lockdown was the province of pure science-fiction. Fast forward a couple of years and it’s now the dull and traumatic reality which feels like it will never end. The process of …
Sundance Review: Prime Time
Today, anyone who wishes to publicly air their thoughts, opinions or grievances can easily do so at the touch of a button. The internet has afforded us all a soapbox. A place where we can be whoever you want. Say whatever we feel. The likes of YouTube, Tik Tok, Instagram et al have given everyone …
Sundance Review: Writing with Fire
There has never been a more dangerous time, in modern history, to be a journalist. Whilst the profession has been traditionally afforded protection and immunity, in many areas of the world being a reporter now puts a target on your back. Making you ripe for kidnap, imprisonment or much worse. Governments has begun to restrict …
Sundance Review: In the Earth
When Ben Wheatley first arrived on the scene, he was a breath of fresh air. Down Terrace passed most people by at the time but Kill List became an instant cult sensation. The Billericay native followed this success up with the hilarious and brilliant Sightseers. However, the rather strange release of A Field in England …
Sundance Review: Sabaya
In summer 2014, daesh captured the town of Sinjar and most of the Sinjar district in Northern Iraq. The population fled into the mountains, including an estimated forty thousand Yazidis. The insurgents waged a systematic campaign of genocide against the Yazid People, capturing girls and young women and murdering everyone else. Whilst the exact number …
Sundance Review: President
The ‘resignation’ of President Robert Mugabe in 2017 ended a chapter in Zimbabwe’s history which had begun almost four decades earlier. Whilst the ZANU-PF leader might have been hounded out of office following a year of protests, he was then simply replaced by a man in the same mould, Emmerson Mnangagwa. A year later the …