Review Tag Archive

Live Action

Animal Kingdom

"Animal Kingdom succeeds in maintaining a tangible sense of sinister fear and never falling into the trap of allowing violence to become a spectacle."

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Live Action

The Butterfly Circus

I hope you’re sitting comfortably. If not grab a drink, dim the lights and move the laptop to the sofa because you’re going to be spending the next

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2010: Amer

One of the best films DN caught at Manchester’s Grimm Up North horror film festival was barely a horror film at all, at least not in the modern sense,

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action

UnderWire: Editing

The final category shown at UnderWire was Editing. Probably the largest part of the industry still predominantly known as a man’s job, years ago in the

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Film Festival, Live Action

UnderWire: Directing

The directing category brought along two films right up my street- beautifully shot and composed, yet sinister and dark. Beautiful Enough is a haunting but

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Film Festival

UnderWire: Cinematography

There was one film that will undoubtedly win this category. Sis, written and directed by Deborah Haywood and shot by Director of Photography Gabi Norland

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Film Festival, Live Action

UnderWire: Producing

Pussy is a somewhat lighthearted delivery of a much more serious subject. Ellie is being sexually bullied by a boy at her school, Rocco. With constant

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: Tsai Ming-Liang

Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang is one of the key personalities of the international new wave of slow-cinema and a figure that has continuously strived to

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: Never Let Me Go

An adaptation of an acclaimed and beloved novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go paints a conceptually alternative world with a very familiar visual

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Documentary, Film Festival

LIFF2010: Double Tide

A few weeks ago a review of Ruhr by James Benning was submitted as part of the coverage of the 54th London Film Festival, where I proposed Benning’s work as

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2010 – The Pack

The third film of our day at Manchester’s Grimm Up North Film Festival was Belgian-French horror hick-flick The Pack (La Meute). When the independent

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Film Festival

Cornwall Film Festival 2010

Without being patronising the Cornwall Film Festival has a lot of charm. Taking place in Falmouth at a cinema that forms part of the South West’s Merlin

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