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Film: Circumstance

Such strict censorship laws from the authoritarian Islamic Republic mean that Iranian cinema is a highly contentious subject within the cinema industry. Director Jafar Panahi’s Circumstance attempts to grapple with that…

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CPH:PIX Film Festival: The Legend of Kaspar Hauser

Even with the involvement of American provocateur Vincent Gallo, visual artist David Manuli’s take on the fabled German tale is obscure, brash and, above all else, boring.

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CPH:PIX Film Festival: The Invader

It all starts with a close up of a pussy, labia and all. Nicolas Provost’s notorious opening for The Invader suggests that the next ninety minutes of film will be daring, defiant, and a trifle pretentious. Strap in.

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26th BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Beauty

Beauty is the uncomfortable story of obsession and repression with a wider narrative dealing with the way the older conservative generation fail to gel with post-apartheid contemporary South Africa

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Film: Into the Abyss: A Tale of Life, A Tale of Death

Alabama’s Thomas Arthur is due to be the twelfth person to be executed in the US this year, tomorrow. Werner Herzog’s Death Row documentary Into the Abyss—a haunting attempt to navigate the moral and ethical labyrinth of capital punishment…

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26th BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: North Sea Texas

Director Bavo Defurne’s feature debut is a queer coming-of-age tale that’s light as meringue and rendered with conspicuous, melt-on-the-screen prettiness, and it’s all the more charming for it.

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26th BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Absent

Marco Berger’s Absent is a strange beast. Sixteen-year old student Martin harbours a forbidden desire for his adult gym teacher, Sebastian.

Down Terrace

Brighton’s blackest of black comedy.

Down Terrace is about the only gory film that Katie has managed to watch at home alone (L-O-S-E-R) and she reviewed it for us so that you can go and get it on DVD too.

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Vondelpark is for Cycling and Getting High

Vondelpark are, hands-down, our new favourite band for getting high to.

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Crystal Castles-Not In Love ft.Robert Smith.

Its all been done before, recreating the 80's reverbed guitars, love fueled synth sounds and bringing it out in 2010, we've all heard it; hell, 'Hurts' have tried it and…

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Beer and Loathing

Anyone for some easter beers?