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Vampire's Kiss is the ultimate Nicolas Cage film, and a bizarre, surreal and hilarious horror-comedy. It's a film about a yuppie; Peter Loew (Cage) in late eighties New York City, single and rich, and mentally unhinged. His time is divided between working as an executive in his literary agency, nights on the town, and trips to… Continue reading Film Review | Vampire’s Kiss
La Haine is a bold and fierce film about social and racial injustice in nineties Paris. Released in 1995, it was celebrated on release and has rightfully gone on to be lauded as a modern classic. The film follows three friends from different ethnic backgrounds - Jewish, African, and Arabic - in a Parisian banlieue, the day after… Continue reading Film Review | La Haine
Dev Patel's directorial debut, Monkey Man, is a brutal, bloody and unrelenting revenge thriller from the streets of India. The film follows our protagonist, played by Patel and unnamed other than in the film's title, who takes part in violent and seedy underground fights for cash. He is representative of India's underclass, with a willingness to… Continue reading Film Review | Monkey Man
Ben Mullinkosson's The Last Year of Darkness is an intimate and vibrant documentary-exposé on nightlife subculture in Chengdu, China. The title, ostensibly, refers to the film's central nightclub, Funky Town, in which drag artists, DJs and outcasts gather to drink and smoke copiously. The Last Year of Darkness is a celebration of what happens when… Continue reading Film Review | The Last Year of Darkness
Monster is a dense and complex drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda that serves to explore contemporary Japan through the eyes of a mother, her son, and the boy's teacher in an entwined triptych. The film opens with a burning building in the centre of town, lighting up the dead of night. Whilst people take notice and observe,… Continue reading Film Review | Monster
Perfect Days is a film about the beautiful everyday, captured precisely and artfully by veteran director Wim Wenders. Kōji Yakusho stars as Hirayama, a middle-aged janitor in Tokyo. He lives in a tiny apartment furnished with little other than his bed, some plants, and rows of books and cassette tapes of 70s and 80s rock. Every morning,… Continue reading Film Review | Perfect Days
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