Entertainment
27th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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PUSH Festival returns to HOME from Friday 11th to Saturday 26th of January 2019.
The festival is a programme of performances, films and exhibitions...
24th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Sergio Leone had a problem with the main characters in westerns being heroic. They were mainly out for themselves and cared little for their...
23rd Dec
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Film Advent Calendar: Abstract surrealism deliberately deconstructs the story in Drowning By Numbers
Most films tell a story in a fairly linear way. Even my previous two reviews, Memento and 2001: A Space Odyssey have a clear narrative structure,...
22nd Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Memento is known as the film filmed backwards. Many people see this as a gimmick.
But unlike films that employ a different technique just to stand...
21st Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Can anyone doubt that Stanley Kubrick was a master of cinema if they have watched 2001?
Not only is it visually sublime, but its composition of...
20th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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A Clockwork Orange was and still is one of the most controversial films ever released.
One of the main impacts the film had, much to Kubrick's...
19th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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I did not like Blade Runner the first time I saw it, because I didn't get it, and couldn't stand its slow pace.
Once I knew the vague outlines of...
18th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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In 1984, George Orwell protrayed a police state that controlled its citizens every move and thought, and imprisoned those it couldn't.
In Brazil,...
17th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Nowadays, with all the money in subsciption based content producers, long-running TV series with high production values are ten-a-penny.
This is...
16th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Jim Jarmusch describes his filmmaking method as rather like that of a music composer. With this film, I can understand what he means.
The music,...