DVD Review – Himizu (2011)
A sole purpose of a film is to entertain, tell a story maybe deliver a specific message which may get people talking, debating possibly trigger some form of action. Most …
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DVD Review – Kotoko (2011)
Mental Illness is no laughing matter nor should it be something we should ignore either and it comes in all shapes and sizes but most of all it can affect …
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DVD Review – Salt Of Life (Gianni Le Donne)
My year and a half living in sun-drenched Sorrento in Southern Italy were a fruitful, memorable and some of the best times of my life. I learned a lot from …
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DVD Review – ID:A (2012)
Christian E.Christiansen didn’t get off to the best of starts with his first outing into English Language films with his 2011 dud The Roommate, which was simply terrible. His venture …
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DVD Review – The Raid (2011)
When someone tells you ‘don’t believe the hype’ in regards to a certain film you have to say the majority of the time there true as that film ends up …
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Blu-ray Review – From Upon Poppy Hill (2011)
Teenagers in love Post World War Japan is the setting for the latest Studio Ghibli home release. With Hayao Miyazaki-San ready to hand over the reigns of Japan’s greatest …
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DVD Review – Sleep Tight (2011)
For many years Nick Ross on BBC’s long-running Crimewatch tv show used to tell us to ‘sleep well, don’t have nightmares’, In Jaime Balaguero‘s Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes) literally the …
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Blu-ray Review – The Hunter (2011)
When it comes to films starring Willem Dafoe his performances are nothing more but mesmeric, outstanding even when the film he stars in is truly awful. The actor is one …
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DVD Review – The Divide (2011)
Xavier Gens knows how to deliver the visceral terrifying experience, Frontier(s) was one of the most harrowing brutal journeys you’ll experience and one of the many reasons why New Wave …
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Film Review – Trishna (2011)
Attempting to adapt literature classics into films is sometimes like treading on eggshells. You have two routes, the safe route a straight forward word by word adaptation or you could …
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