Every week on Cinematica - the movie podcast I co-host with Simon Werry and Kailey Carruthers - we sign-off each film with a two-word review. It’s a gag, of course,…
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Turkish-German director Fatih Akin has long been an arthouse favourite around these parts. Head-On (2004) and The Edge of Heaven (2007) were Festival successes so it was odd to see…
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Half way through Winter’s Bone I found myself thinking, “So, this is what the Western has become?” The best Westerns are about finding or sustaining a moral path though a…
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Before Jerry Dammers and The Special AKA wrote that song about him in 1983, I didn’t know who Nelson Mandela was. When I bought the record and read the story…
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