Film Review: Let the Wrong One In
Dublin in drenched in history. The largest city in Ireland is full of beautiful architecture and echoes of a lively and fascinating past. Dating back to the Gaels or Vikings, depending on who you ask, today it’s a thriving European capital and a popular tourist hotspot. A fact which has brought its own problems, including …
Film Review: Coppelia
Dating back to the Italian renaissance, ballet grew out of the courts over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Popularity peaked during the next hundred years, but it has retained its appeal for a significant minority, especially within developed countries. Over the years it has evolved and often morphed into modern dance, allowing it to break …
CPH:DOX Review: 2nd Chance
There are many stupid and completely incomprehensible things about America for non-Americans to try and get their heads round but nothing is more baffling than the relationship the US has with guns. A country where it is legal, in many States, to openly carry weapons and also a nation which has over a hundred firearms …
Blu-Ray Review: In Cold Blood
Today, true crime is big business. Newsagents’ shelves are full of magazines, bookstores stuffed to the seams with bestsellers and streaming services providing a platform, and funding, for countless popular series. This hasn’t always been the case though. When Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was published in 1966 it was an instant success. Remaining one …
CPH:DOX Review: A Night of Knowing Nothing
While the government might like to try and portray their country as a modern progressive democracy, nothing could be further from the truth. Traditional discrimination and prejudices, largely in the form of the caste system and the kind of gender inequality that borders on the barbaric, remain. While the current government seems hellbent on fuelling …
CPH:DOX Review: Karaoke Paradise
A lot of people seem to love doing karaoke. Much to my chagrin, it appears to have become popular and trendy again, finally getting the kind of attention in Europe it does in places like Japan and South Korea. Specific bars and clubs have shot up all across the continent. It makes sense really. People …
CPH:DOX Review: Atlantide
Venice is a city with many attractions, but it’s probably best known as the most romantic city in Europe. That and its intricate system of canals, rich and eye-catching history and famous lagoon. There’s nowhere else quite like it. And don’t tourists know it. They flock to the north of Italy in increasing numbers every …
Film Review: Barbarians
Housing prices seem to be rising inexorably, meaning that anyone who can afford to get on the housing ladder is likely to have a cash cow for some time to come. However, the pandemic has made many reassess their priorities. People are moving out of cities in droves in order to be near to the …
CPH:DOX Review: The Invisible Extinction
If the last two years has taught us anything it’s that our existence, as a species, is fragile. Climate change will likely kill us in the end, but along the way our increasing encroachment into different habitants is likely to cause us a lot of pain. While COVID-19 has changed the world, it’s not likely …