FIlm Review
Film Review: Medieval
There has been a lot of blood spilled over the course of the history of Europe, but children rarely learn about events which took place outside of national borders unless they have a direct impact on their country. The Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance, were particularly turbulent, brutal …
Film Review: Terrifier 2
The modern clown dates back to the 19th century but it originated from the caricature of a fool or country bumpkin a few hundred years earlier. Whilst they became a staple of circuses around the world, performing a mix of physical comedy and acrobatics. They’re also incredibly scary. A fact that didn’t go unnoticed by …
Film Review: Argentina, 1985
The National Reorganization Process ruled Argentina as a dictatorship from 1976 and 1983l after the armed forces wrestled power away from Isabel Perón in a military coup at a time of growing economic and political instability. During this period, Operation Condor, an operation where military and security forces, along with right-wing death squads, hunted down …
Film Review: You Won’t Be Alone
With a constant stream of negative news and the relentless social media echo chamber, it’s easy to forget what it’s like to simply be alive. Our lives are so complex and convoluted nowadays that we often forget to pause and take a minute to just catch our breath. Increasingly, people are looking for a way …
Film Review: Disfluency
While the term post-traumatic stress disorder might have first been officially used in the late 1970s for the diagnosis of Vietnam War veterans, the concept of an extreme stress reaction predates it by a couple of decades. Of course, the actual symptoms of PTSD were nothing new, though the condition has been known by a …
Film Review: Slash/Back
If watching films and TV has taught me anything, it’s not to mess with children. Malefactors underestimate them at their peril. Criminals beware, you would have gotten away with it to if it weren’t for those meddling kids. Aliens! Don’t even think of landing on a London housing estate because teenagers have your number, if …
Film Review: In The Court of the Crimson King
The music industry isn’t known for taking prisoners. Bands come and go in the blink of an eye. Today’s hype band usually finds itself in tomorrow’s bargain bins. In the age of streaming, when it has become increasingly difficult to make a living out of music, most quickly fall by the wayside. Very few groups …
Film Review: The Book Keepers
There is no right or wrong way to deal with grief. We all process a loss in our own way. The fact one approach works for one person doesn’t mean it will be successful for someone else. The only real advice in dealing with bereavement that’s universal is the power of expressing your emotions. Not …
Film Review: Silent River
There is probably no term in the cinephile dictionary which is more regularly misused than that of ‘Lynchian’. Referencing the work of David Lynch, it has become a lazy descriptor for anything that’s a bit different from the norm. Any film which is strange or odd. Difficult to comprehend or refuses to let the audience …
Film Review – SEPA: Nuestro Señor de los Milagros
Prison is not meant to be a holiday camp but in some countries it’s more like a living hell. Where punishment is the order of the day and rehabilitation isn’t so much as an afterthought. Many of the worst ones are in countries where lawlessness and bribery are rampant. Not to mention good old political …