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EIFF 2014Festival Coverage

Night Flight – EIFF 2014

Night Flight is the name of an old abandoned gay bar, once covertly operated in an apartment block. Here two young men meet up periodically to discuss gay life in contemporary Korea. As they stand on the roof, chain smoking under a sunset sky, the ominous sounds of the planes overhead and traffic down below […]

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DVDReviews

Camp Dread – DVD Review

Harrison Smith impressed with his script for 2011’s The Fields, following on from that Camp Dread is his directorial debut.

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DbD 2014Festival Coverage

Chocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla – DBD 2014

Stuart Simpson’s Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla is a strange but welcome kind of cathartic character study. Warren (Glenn Maynard) is an ice cream man, he lives alone with his cat and tunes in daily to his favourite soap opera. However, after an awful accident, Warren’s life begins to spiral out of control: he becomes dangerously obsessed […]

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DbD 2014Festival Coverage

Killer Legends – Dead by Dawn 2014

In 2010 Joshua Zeman’s Cropsey investigated the point where folklore and real life merge. Killer Legends builds on Zeman’s fascination with the true-crime origins of urban legends, exploring how such tales are manufactured and perpetuated.

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Festival CoverageGFF 2014

The Strange Colour of Your Bodies Tears – GFF 2014

Following on from their stunning debut feature Amer, Helen Cattet and Bruno Forzani deliver another breath-taking giallo-inspired thriller, pushing the envelope even further in terms of narrative coherency and cinematic beauty.

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Festival CoverageGFF 2014

The Dance of Reality – GFF 2014

Reviewing a film like Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad) is a tricky thing. Rarely do films achieve such a level of mind-boggling skill, flaunting an incredible fusion of art and entertainment like nothing you’ve ever seen. The legendary director’s first film in 23 years is an account of his […]

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Festival CoverageTIFF 2013

Devil’s Knot – TIFF 2013

Back in 1993, three boys wandered into the woods of a small Arkansas town and never came out again, their bodies were found

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Festival CoverageTIFF 2013

Man of Tai Chi – TIFF 2013

At one point in time many of us owed our teenage years to Keanu Reeves. Not only did the guy become a global star overnight

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Festival CoverageTIFF 2013

Gravity – TIFF 2013

Only the human race would look at the void hell of space and think ‘we should probably go there’. Time and time again

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Festival CoverageTIFF 2013

Thou Gild’st the Even – TIFF 2013

Undoubtedly one of the most bizarre features at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is Turkish oddball drama

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