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Films
The Yellow Sea
When Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs opened to great furore at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, the film was cruelly dubbed by a small number of unimpressed critics as “the most violent film ever made”. This was a label that...
Films
Young Adult
The well of creative output devoted to the high school experience (its social constructs, labour-camp rigidity, tribalism) seems bottomless. It remains the most accessible common denominator for all Americans: either the Hero’s...
Films
You Instead
By Jack Jones – When you look at the history of the Rock-Mockumentary, though admittedly a small genre, there is little to compare to the genius of This Is Spinal Tap. And while fans of this cult-classic spurt their favou...
DVD/Blu-ray
Your Highness Cinema
‘When in doubt, go for your dick joke’, Robin Williams once said in his ‘still funny’ period. If the Johnson-heavy dialogue of Your Highness is anything to go by, Danny McBride and his co-writer Ben Best must have penned the sc...
DVD/Blu-ray
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
The greatest shame about Woody Allen’s recent dip in form, perhaps now better described as a full blown plunge, is the manner in which it has tainted his achievements. The result of recurring rashes of revisionism which e...
