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DVD Review: 'Beyond the Walls' 27 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
★★☆☆☆ Films such as Weekend (2012), Keep the Lights On (2012) and I Want your Love (2012) have all recently hinted at a fast-emerging new wave of queer cinema. All three films possess a naturalistic ...
Blu-ray Review: 'The Tarnished Angels' (MoC) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
★★★☆☆ An adaptation of William Faulkner's 1935 novel Pylon (and considered by Faulkner to be the finest of all screen adaptations of his work), Douglas Sirk's haunting and inherently sad The Tarnishe...
Blu-ray Review: 'Simon Killer' (MoC) 27 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
★★★★☆ Though you'd be forgiven for initially thinking that 'Travis Bickle: The Post-College Life' was playing out in front of you (with a healthy dose of Gaspar Noé thrown in), Antonio Campos' Simon ...
DVD Review: 'Olympus Has Fallen' 27 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm
★★★☆☆ The first of two films this year to use the White House as its setting, Olympus Has Fallen (2013) is the latest film to adopt the time-honoured one man army vs. terrorists plot-line, and it acc...
DVD Review: 'The Land of Hope' 27 Aug 2013 | 04:06 pm
★★★☆☆ The Land of Hope (2012) is a delicately-paced drama, centring on the lives of a rural farming family who are affected by a nearby environmental catastrophe, set a few years after the Fukushima ...
DVD Review: 'A Hijacking' 27 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
★★★★☆ Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking (Kapringen, 2012) is a refreshingly naturalistic, fictionalised tale of a Danish merchant vessel held captive by Somali pirates. Traversing the usual heightened te...
DVD Review: 'Blackfish' 27 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm
★★★★☆ On 24 February, 2010, experienced SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by a male orca called Tilikum during a live show. Initially, the details of the incident were unclear, with early re...
FrightFest 2013: 'Nosferatu' review 27 Aug 2013 | 12:24 pm
★★★★★ Screened at FrightFest ahead of a slot at the BFI's Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film season comes the Masters of Cinema's newly restored version of F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic Nosferatu. One of th...
FrightFest 2013: 'Daylight' review 26 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
★★★☆☆ Not to be confused with the 1996 Stallone film, Daylight (2013) is something of a team effort, boasting a trio of directors - David McCracken, Joel Townsend and Kaidan Tremain - who also divvy ...
FrightFest 2013: 'Willow Creek' review 26 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
★★☆☆☆ Kelly (Alexie Gilmore) and Jim (Bryce Johnson) are a young couple heading out into the woods to look for the legendary Bigfoot. Kelly is an aspiring actress and wryly sceptical about the expedi...
