Deadlock: The modern Western
Roland Klick’s acid western embraces and transcends the ‘Spaghetti’ sub-genre, writes Sarah Acton.
Category Archives: Reviews
The Taste Of Money
Im Sang-soo’s THE TASTE OF MONEY has a gin-dry and pleasingly wry sense of humour which takes pity on none of its players.
Exposed – Beyond Burlesque
An articulate, challenging and rewarding film which opens a thoughtful discourse on gender, disability and sexuality.
Particle Fever
Science and the popular press have become somewhat uneasy bedfellows over the last few decades, writes Mark Liversidge.
Growing Pain
The actual medical cause of physical ‘growing pains’ among children remain unknown, Wikipedia (reliably?) informs the curious reader: they are not thought to be directly linked to spurts in height. This mildly poetic physiological peculiarity seems relevant to the selection of short films at the Arts Picturehouse entitled GROWING PAIN– the five pieces chosen explore … Continue reading Growing Pain
Google and the World Brain
Just how much intellectual property should be placed in the hands of a single entity? And who exactly should profit from it?
The Lebanese Rocket Society
Higher and higher, bigger and bigger. That was the Lebanese Rocket Society’s motto in the early to mid 1960s. Huw Oliver reviews this improbable documentary screening at Cambridge Film Festival.
Avant que de Tout Perdre
Quelle sera le résultat de cette perte ? une mort … une évasion … un bannissement ? Nous vous recommandons vivement de découvrir l’une des trois projections au Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.
Just Before Losing Everything
What will the titular loss entail? A death… an escape… a banishment? We strongly recommend you find out. But, if possible, don’t watch it alone.
Tokyo Dreams
Nicholas Barker decided to covertly film people dozing on Tokyo subway trains; from this he created his magnificent short film, TOKYO DREAMS.