Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) proved to be a huge global hit and
helped pave the way for a number of epic Chinese blockbusters that followed it,
but the film was not without controversy, and critics both inside…Read More...
The characters of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, created by the late
Swedish journalist and author Stieg Larsson in his best-selling Millennium
Trilogy and brought to life on screen in three hit Swedish films,…Read More...
Organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have
campaigned for almost a decade to have the Guantanamo Bay detention centre closed
down, but as admirable as their protests about the legal status a…Read More...
Ever since Charles Darwin published On The Origin Of Species in 1859, people have
been fascinated by theories of evolution and early human development. Pioneering
film director DW Griffith was perhaps the first person to bring p…Read More...
After its heyday in the early-80s, the slasher sub-genre went quiet for a while,
then reappeared in the mid-90s and mutated into the lucrative torture porn of the
noughties and on. Low budget Swedish film Blood Runs Cold is very…Read More...
With the recent success of the BBC’s second screening of the first series of
Danish television crime drama The Killing (Forbrydelsen), the upsurge of interest
in Danish film and television could give 2010 prison drama R: Hit…Read More...
Wolfgang Murnberger has attempted the unexpected with this 2011 film based on a
novel and co-written by Paul Hengge – injecting a tale of World War II and the
Holocaust with comedy. In the interests of accuracy, My Best En…Read More...
Traveller communities in Britain and Ireland don’t exactly enjoy the best of
reputations, and while Ian Palmer’s gritty documentary may give tabloid hacks a
further excuse to castigate them, it does also give more open-min…Read More...
Over the past few years the United Kingdom has been rocked by one childcare
scandal after another, and public confidence in state and religious institutions
responsible for caring for vulnerable children seems to be at an…Read More...
Releases as part of the The Nicolas Philibert Collection. We may all have
different memories of our school days, some of them happy and some of them
anything but, but French director Nicolas Philibert’s award-win…Read More...
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