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Film Review – Bacurau (2019)
‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, it’s a saying you can use in many situations including describing films like Kleber Mendoca Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘ Bacurau. A film you may think you about, but you really don’t. All about wealthy inequality, class struggle, dripping in blood-lust and Udo Kier! More and more we’re seeing…
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Film Review – Sweet Country (2017)
Nine years after his impressive directorial feature debut Samson & Delilah, Warwick Thornton is behind the camera once again with Sweet Country. There is no ‘sweet country’ to be found in this one, an examination of the oppression and harsh realities of the indigenous people of Austrailia the Aboriginees. A dark slice of Australian history…
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DVD Review – Lucky Luke (2009)
Last Year when Italy’s so-called biggest selling comic book Dylan Dog starring Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) became a film and was released in U.S.A, it was been branded one of the most popular and biggest selling comics in the world it was greeted with Dylan Who? Believe it or not, over Easter the film even…
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Blu-ray Review – Blackthorn(2011)
When it comes to Westerns they don’t go hand in hand with me, it’s like having Charlton Heston the chairman of the anti-gun lobby. I never really jumped on board the recent trend of making Westerns (or remaking as they like to do these days) despite living in a household which Cowboy novels and films…
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Blu-ray Review: Django Unchained
The master of homage Quentin Tarantino made his timely return to the big screen back in January with another entry to his ‘Hate, Murder and Revenge’ trilogy. For this film we head West as his homage to Spaghetti Western Django Unchained which prepares for it’s home release, but are we getting another classic dialogue driven…
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