Particle Fever
Science and the popular press have become somewhat uneasy bedfellows over the last few decades, writes Mark Liversidge.
Category Archives: Reviews
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.
The Great Beauty
Sorrentino’s corrupt, shameless Rome establishes a chokehold of gratuitous hedonism which it refuses to release for the film’s duration.
The War
SHORTFUSION is often a treasure trove of inventive and beautiful cinema nuggets, and this year is no exception, writes Owen Baker.
Upstream Color
Squirm-inducing body horror, the field recording expeditions of a pig farmer, meditations on free will, and a vague romance. Paul Milne reviews Shane Carruth’s latest.