Review Tag Archive

Animation, Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: A Town Called Panic

The first stop-motion animation to compete in Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection, A Town Called Panic’s eccentric insanity is not what we have

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: Son of Babylon

Set only a few weeks into the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Son of Babylon, winner of the Amnesty Film Award and Peace Prize at the 60th

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Film Festival, Live Action

LIFF2010: To Walk Beside You

Although it would be a stretch to denounce To Walk Beside You as a mistranslation of the original Japanese title, a direct translation would offer slightly

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2010: Evil: In the Time of Heroes

DN had the pleasure of a five film horror marathon at the Grimm Up North film festival in Manchester. The second film of the day was Yorgos Noussias’

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Live Action

Away We Stay

It fills me with a warm glow when companies decide to sidestep their traditional advertising routes or the forced down your throat product placement approach

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival

LIFF2010: Mare’s Tail

Cherry Kino, who programmed Mare’s Tail, is the experimental film strand of the Leeds International Film Festival, though its founder Martha Jurksaitis

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Live Action

The Walking Dead: Episode 1

Zombies, zombies, bloody zombies. We really should be sick of the sight of them. The most annoying thing about them is that regardless of how many zombie films

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2010: Fragment

DN went to the Grimm Up North film festival in Manchester and very bravely watched five horror films in a row without once calling out for our mummy. First

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Live Action

The Maid DVD

I can’t remember the last time I saw a character as fully-formed and original as the tile character in The Maid, a warm, funny and touching drama from Chile.

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Film Festival

LFF2010: Over Until Next Year

The London Film Festival has been over for four days now, I’ve finished my reviews, caught up on some sleep and now feel I’m in the right frame of mind to

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Documentary, Film Festival

LFF2010: Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

Songwriter Stephin Merritt is hailed to many as the Cole Porter of his generation. Writing alongside his band The Magnetic Fields, he writes memorable,

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Film Festival, Live Action

LFF2010: Dear Doctor

Dear Doctor for me, was one of the surprise favourite films of the festival. Almost missing it, I was advised by a friend to fit it in and I’m glad I did.

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