Film Festival
Tallinn Black Night Review: Night Forest
There’s nothing most of us like more than a good adventure. One which tasks the mind and body while offering the prospect of treasure at the end of the quest. Whilst initially becoming popular in literature, it’s a notion which has gamely spread into television, video games and films. The obvious examples are Indiana Jones …
LKFF Review: Collectors
There’s something about a good adventure yarn which feels inherently satisfying. Treasure hunters like Indiana Jones, Laura Croft or Nathan Drake capture the imaginations of both the young and old. They operate in worlds that are both dangerous and very appealing. The same can be said for heist movies. Accomplishing something as a team has …
Celluloid Screams Review: When I Consume You
As a single child it’s hard to imagine what it’s like to have a sibling or indeed siblings. It’s strange that some brothers and sisters are so distant that you’d hardly know they’re related, with absolutely nothing in common. In other families, there’s an almost unbreakable closeness. This seems to be particularly true when there’s …
Celluloid Screams Review – Nocturna: Side A
Getting old is not much fun. While we celebrate the fact that medical advances and higher standards of living are increasing life expectancy, at what price? While our body might survive longer that doesn’t mean our mind will. Dementia affects one-in-six people over the age of eighty in the UK and that number is rising …
Celluloid Screams Review: Mad God
Some films are a long time coming. It’s not unusual for a filmmaker to have a passion project. Something they spend years, if no decades, trying to bring to fruition. Often driven by a desire or even obsession to make it that cannot be adequately articulated by words. For Phil Tippett it all began back …
Celluloid Screams Review: Tin Can
In 2021, it has become a heck of a lot easier to imagine what it would be like to live in the middle of a pandemic. As surreal as it might sound, ‘science-fiction’ became reality and there seems to be no end in sight at the moment. It might be a bit too soon to …
LFF Review: Hinterland
At one stage during the early part of the nineteenth century, The Austrian Empire was the third biggest in Europe. That was before several wars, revolution, and an awkward compromise agreement with Hungary which would take the country up to the start of World War I, when they would once again become one with Germany. …
LFF Review: Petrov’s Flu
On 25 December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his position as the President of the Soviet Union. He handed over the reins of power to Boris Yeltsin and in doing so ended the era of communism within the sovereign state. The country’s progression towards capitalism was slow and painful, with food shortages and poverty becoming …
LFF Review: Juju Stories
We humans seem to be a really superstitious species. As civilisations have evolved and progressed these ‘old wives’ tales’ have gradually died out. Replaced by advances in science and medicine. However, in many rural areas traditions have survived. These are often transported to towns and cities through migration. This is the case in West Africa, …
LFF Review: The Gravedigger’s Wife
Djibouti is the smallest nation in mainland Africa. Despite recent economic growth, largely driven by its strategic location on the Red Sea and a large service sector, almost half the population live in extreme poverty. Especially in rural areas. Roughly 600,000 people reside in Djibouti City, the capital. With a high unemployment rate and low …