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Gorillas In The Mist

Based on a true story, Gorillas InThe Mist gives us a look into the magnificent work of Dian Fossey, a woman dedicated to protecting the rare mountain gorillas of Uganda.

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Gorillas In The Mist
Your 1st Cinema Experience

Our popular “Question of the Day” on Twitter is always an insightful enterprise. This week though it was a blast, quite literally! Who would have thought…

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Your 1st Cinema Experience
Trainspotting

Jack Murphy brings us a look at Danny Boyle’s 1996 genre-defining film, Trainspotting, in relation to Zygmunt Baumans ideas of human waste in post-modernity.

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Trainspotting
Surviving The Dead

Howard J Ford has taken our love for The Dead to a new level and has written an uncompromising, honest, blow-by-blow account of their fight for survival making the film.

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Surviving The Dead
The Fifth Element

We take a look at some of the parallels between The Fifth Element, directed by Luc Besson and starring Milla Jovovich as the Supreme Being, and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

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The Fifth Element
2D Or Not 2D…

Cinema is trying to conquer the third dimension – once again. But is 3D what we’ve been waiting for, and is there more to it than nausea and the extra expense?

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2D Or Not 2D…
Avatar

What does Avatar tell us about the dangers of cultivating an environment for anthropocentric purposes? And furthermore, will we eventually have to leave Earth?

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Avatar
NEDS

Peter Mullan’s third feature film, NEDS, pulls us into the anger fuelled world of 1970′s Glasgow, giving us a view of the life he once experienced.

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NEDS
The Thin Red Line

After a 20 year hiatus Terrence Malick returned with The Thin Red Line, his ode to war and spirituality and a film that improves with age, demanding to be watched again.

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The Thin Red Line
Requiem For A Dream

Let’s look at one of the themes in Requiem For A Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky, as we ask “Can better living can be attained through increased consumption?”

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Requiem For A Dream
James Dean – Happy Birthday To An Icon

Our authors, including Mark Patton and Rohan Mohmand, pay tribute to James Dean, that unmistakable icon of film, who would have been 81 on February 8th. Happy Birthday, Jimmy!

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James Dean – Happy Birthday To An Icon
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

We take a look at personal identity, selective memory erasure and utilitarianism in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and try to answer “What makes us who we are?”

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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
David Fincher & Citizen Kane

We look at director David Fincher’s work with Madonna from the late 80’s and early 90’s and in particular, their homage to Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane with Oh Father.

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David Fincher & Citizen Kane
V For Vendetta

There are three main types of terrorism in the world today but can any of them ever be justified morally or legally? V For Vendetta might hold an answer.

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V For Vendetta
Melancholia

Watching Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, a hypnotic tale of worlds colliding, I couldn’t help but think of how close we came with comet Elenin and an extinction level event.

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Melancholia
Flight 93

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, four passenger jets were hijacked. While three of them reached their targets, one of them didn’t. This is Flight 93’s story.

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Flight 93
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