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Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty Report Sheffield Doc/Fest becomes bigger and more successful by the year. Its twentieth ran from 12-16 June 2013 and boasted an...

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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Taboor

With a distinctive opening and an almost transcendent closing shot, Iranian writer-director Vahid Vakilifar’s second feature (following 2010’s Gesher) is...
Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty – Not Criminally Responsible Review

John Kastner’s documentary explores the tentative relationship between mental illness and seriously violent crimes, and focuses on one incident from...
Summer In February Review

Christopher Menaul’s Summer in February is based upon the 1995 novel by Jonathan Smith, which concentrates on a group of...
Cannes 2013: The Immigrant Review

Turning to the world of period dramas, James Gray crafts a story of longing, loss, and the shattered dreams of...
Much Ado About Nothing Review

Derek Jarman’s The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet and now Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing represent a body of work, where...
East End Film Festival – After Tiller

Martha Lane and Lana Wilson’s documentary After Tiller focuses entirely on third-trimester abortions, those undertaken after the twenty first week...
Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty – Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers

A fascinating and innovative documentary that sashays across Europe and beyond, from war-torn Yugoslavia to the sparkling jewellery shops of...
Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: The Deep

“Of course, I’m nothing but a drop in the ocean,” says Gudlaugur Fridthórsson, the real-life Icelandic fisherman upon whom The...
Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: When Night Falls

That Shanghai-born writer-director Liang Ying’s fourth feature in six years has proved to be such a persistent thorn in the...
Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty – Project Wild Thing Review

Project Wild Thing is the name of an ambitious scheme created by award-winning filmmaker David Bond to get children away...
East End Film Festival: Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer

Of late, the moment a major event occurs there seems to be a rush to capitalise upon it by being...
Terracotta Film Festival: What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love

“Boys fall in love with what they see. Girls fall in love with what they hear.” Mouly Surya’s film, the...

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To The Wonder DVD Review

Terrence Malick returns from 2011′s The Tree of Life with To The Wonder starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams...
Cria Cuervos (Raise Ravens) Blu Ray Review

Those who associate Spanish cinema with the post-Franco flamboyance of Pedro Almodovar might be surprised to discover the restrained, gloomy...
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 Blu-ray Review

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 could be straight out of an Agatha Christie novel, an episode of Murder, She...