Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. Pieced together solely from footage sourced from the Soviet film archives, Sergei Loznitsa’s collection of documentaries, Blockade, Revue, and Landscape, provides a largely unseen portrait of Russia’s tumultuous and often deeply tragic journey through the 20th Century. Retrospectively the key events which have marked the vast […]
Read MoreThey Came From Underground Worms: wriggly, slimy, gross, all acceptable adjectives when describing those bizarre non-arthropod invertebrate animals that slowly pulsate through the ground upon which we walk… but scary? Scary just doesn’t cut it when it comes to fleshy entities we accidentally step upon on a dark, sodden winter morning. Squirm, the debut feature […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter I KNOW WHAT BOYS LIKE Originally released in 1982 alongside Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Last American Virgin is often overlooked when it comes to benchmark releases of the coming-of-age comedy variety. This is primarily due to the enduring popularity and influence of Fast Times’ Cameron Crowe penned script, […]
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GIRL ON FILM After fleeing Catalonia amidst the chaos of The Spanish Civil War, Mercè finds herself sequestered from Franco’s army upon the streets of a quaint French town – which itself exists under the daily pervasiveness of Nazi rule. As the beautiful refugee goes about life, washing her feet in the town square fountain […]
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BROTHERS IN ARMS Hot on the jet-powered heels of Robert Downey Jr.’s electrifying outing as his limousine riding, high-tech armour flying, kiss stealing billionaire alter-ego Tony Stark in Iron Man 3, everyone’s favourite mythical Norse god has returned to take up the slack on the old avenging front – and rest assured he’s brought his […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter IT’S 1988, WELCOME TO HELL There have been several depictions of supermax prisons committed to film over the last few decades. Whether pure action, sci-fi, or a combination of the two, very rarely do we see these intimidating structures of incarceration exhibited beyond the two genres. Usually our protagonists begin […]
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