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60th BFI London Film Festival 2016 Review – The Handmaiden (2016)

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The Handmaiden, 2016 Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Kim Tae-ri, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo SYNOPSIS: During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young con-woman Sook-Hee is hired to be a wealthy heiress’s handmaiden at an isolated countryside estate. Joining forces with a fellow thief, she plans to swindle the heiress out of her fortune, […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – An Insignificant Man (2016)

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An Insignificant Man, 2016. Directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla Starring Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav and Santosh Koli. SYNOPSIS: An enthralling documentary following the political career of activist Arvind Kejriwal around the 2013 Delhi election, and his battle with two long standing political parties in India, the world’s largest democracy. An Insignificant Man chronicles […]

Westworld Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Original’

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Tony Black reviews the first episode of Westworld… Given the end of Game of Thrones is a year or two at most away around the corner, HBO is banking a lot on Westworld to fill a void, not just of multi-million dollar, event series television, but also that heightened level of mythology and intrigue the […]

October Horrors Day 8 – Psycho (1960)

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Psycho, 1960 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam and Janet Leigh SYNOPSIS: Marion Crane has just stolen thousands of dollars from her former employer in order to clear the debts of her soon-to-be-husband and build a new life for them. Making a quick getaway, Marion stops in at […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – La La Land (2016)

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La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: In Los Angeles, aspiring actress Mia (Emma Stone) works in the coffee shop on the Warner Brothers’ lot and goes to auditions.  Jazz devotee and struggling musician Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) resorts to playing at weddings, parties […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Manchester by the Sea (2016)

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Manchester by the Sea, 2016. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges and Tate Donovan. SYNOPSIS:  An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. Densely absorbing and richly enveloping, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s third feature is a melancholic but undeniably human portrait of grief, […]

Video Game Review – WRC 6

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Martin Carr reviews WRC 6… I like my rally games but have avoided the Forza series favouring instead anything with Colin McRae, or Dirty Rally in the title baring‘Dirt 3. Reason being that number three seemed to lack the authenticity which CodeMasters had always strived for in other incarnation. Imagine my surprise then when WRC […]

October Horrors Day 7 – The Bay (2012)

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The Bay, 2012 Directed by Barry Levinson Starring Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly, Kether Donahue and Frank Deal SYNOPSIS: Presented in the style of a documentary, the film follows the events of a Fourth of July celebration gone wrong in the small fishing town of Claridge, Maryland, as the inhabitants, thanks to contaminated water, find their […]

Second Opinion – Blood Father (2016)

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Blood Father, 2016. Directed by Jean-Francois Richet Starring Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks and William H Macy. SYNOPSIS: An ex-con reunites with her estranged 17-year-old daughter after many years, but their reunion is short-lived as he must protect her from murderous drug barons. Densely packed into its 90-minute runtime, Blood Father packs […]