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Film Review: Hunt
The political situation in a modern East Asia always seems to be a little precarious, but it’s often tensions between South Korea and North Korea which set nerves on edge. Not a year goes by, it seems, without Kim Jong-un launching a missile test and there are always citizens of the DPR looking to defect. …
Film Review: Where is Anne Frank
Anne Frank is probably the most famous diarist to have ever lived, even though she obviously never got to see her work published. A fact which is unlikely to escape your notice if you visit Amsterdam. Whilst easily the most discussed Jewish figure who lost their life during the Holocaust, the fact that Anne and …
Film Review – Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Most biographical documentaries approach their subject in a fairly standard and linear way. Normally, running through their life and work in chronological order, with friends, family and experts on hand to add some insight and move proceedings along. Especially when the focal point is no longer with us. Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time comes at …
Film Review: The Real Charlie Chaplin
The silent era produced a number of famous faces and Hollywood stars, but the big three of comedy were Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. Indeed, it’s the latter’s ‘Tramp’ which remains the most iconic visage from that period in today’s popular culture. With the likes of Modern Times, The Kid, City Lights and …
Film Review: The Show
Alan Moore is undoubtedly one of the most imaginative, original and intelligent of British creative figures. His will be a familiar name for fans of comics or graphic novels, creating the likes of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, Prometheus, Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke and The Swamp Thing. However, the …
Film Review: The Dissident
Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist who worked for the Washington post. He fled his homeland into self-imposed exile in 2017 following Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s crackdown on political critics. He continued to hold the government to account from his new home in America, but became increasingly outspoken against the oppression of freedom of …
Film Review: The Capote Tapes
Truman Capote is one of those authors whose exuberant personality and celebrity antics overshadowed his body of work. The American writer and playwright first came to prominence for his short stories, notably Miriam, but its his ‘non-fiction’ In Cold Blood and the delicious prose of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which made him famous. The latter introduced …
DVD Review: Never Grow Old
Emile Hirsch is one of those actors who seems to have starred in more films than you remember. He’s also got a fairly chequered personal history, and all this at just 34 years of age. After featuring in The Girl Next Door and Lords of Dogtown Hirsch made his big break in Into the Wild, …
DVD Review: Beyond the Sky
Each year, tens of thousands of people claim to be the victims of alien abductions. Extra-terrestrials, for some inexplicable reason, seem to target North Americans who often have the characteristics you would closely associate with a redneck. Whilst these experiences are often very different and are perpetrated by a gamut of alien species, the one …
DVD Review: VS.
Being a middle-aged white liberal, I rely heavily on the broadsheets to tell me about what the young people are up to. Millennials, it turns out, are work-shy, stupid and drug-addled wasters who don’t even have the decency to drink anymore. Or at least that seems to be the impression of the privileged. Young working-class …