Netflix Film of the Week: Le Week-End

The FILM IN WORDS Netflix Film of the Week: helping you navigate the filmic minefield of the nation’s favourite video streaming service. Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter IS PARIS FOR LOVERS? Decades of marriage have left Nick and Meg Burrows disillusioned with one another. The roaring fires of youthful passion have diminished to faint, fading […]

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World In Review: An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter HARD TIMES Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanović is no stranger to bleak subject matter. His 2001 picture, No Man’s Land was an abrasive and darkly comic portrayal of the Bosnian War and two soldiers facing imminent death inside one of the conflict’s many inhospitable battlefield trenches. The picture also revealed Tanović […]

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Netflix Film of the Week: The Frozen Ground

The FILM IN WORDS Netflix Film of the Week: helping you navigate the filmic minefield of the nation’s favourite video streaming service. Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter GONE HUNTIN’ Cusack and Cage: two names which are stamped upon many film lovers’ fondest cinematic memories and vast home-video collections – for better or worse. The zany, […]

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Netflix Film of the Week: The Secret in Their Eyes

Dead and Buried by Brody Rossiter   A story of buried passions, a heinous crime, and a seemingly impossible fight for justice amidst the lawlessness of a land plagued with deep-seated corruption, Argentine crime-thriller, The Secret in Their Eyes, is a powerful and slickly produced example of world cinema at its finest and most compelling. […]

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Matt & Tom Berninger Interview: Mistaken for Strangers

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother After years of toiling away beneath the shaky lighting rigs of empty beer-soaked bars, peddling his musical wares alongside his melodic band of brothers, The National, Matt Berninger’s sucker-punch lyricism would propel the Ohio native from the rag-tag romanticism of New York City’s inconsequential […]

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UKGFF: Musicwood Review

Words: Emmett Barlow Twitter: @EmmettBarlow WHILE MY FORREST GENTLY WEEPS What would you rather drive a vintage Ferrari or a Toyota Jazz? Words such as legacy, history and craftsmanship, may sway you, but in reality the price tag and national speed limit mean you get to you’re destination at the same time – although the […]

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