Back in 2003 Ong Bak burst onto our screens as an instant classic. It may not have taken the box office earnings that it deserved, but it nevertheless retained a solid fan-base, especially for the film’s star, the then unknown, Tony Jaa. Overnight he was immediately hailed the new Bruce...
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Harry Barker thinks that ABC's new blockbuster TV series FlashForward might be a little bit Lost
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Here’s a riddle: when is a smug git not a smug git? Answer: when he’s a TV chef. The current vogue for objectionable men bellowing over a hot stove is truly one of the signature cultural innovations of our age, right up there with Jamster ring-tones and Vernon Kaye (world,...
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Mike Leigh is the master of British Film’s great tradition: social realism. Anyone fighting to suppress a yawn at that less than exciting label would be forgiven, but Leigh proves it can be produce some great stories. With the precision of a surgeon Leigh peels back the layers to discover...
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Nothing can prepare you for Hunger. Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen’s directorial debut is quite simply the most powerful British film I’ve ever seen. Dealing with one of the most troubling events of the Northern Irish conflict, Bobby Sands’ 1981 prison hunger strike that eventually resulted in his death, this...
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Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank is remarkable in its unflinchingly gritty, yet often beautiful evocation of modern life on a council estate in Dagenham, Essex. The plot centres around fifteen year old Mia (played by newcomer Katie Jarvis, who Arnold discovered arguing with her boyfriend on a station platform), a girl...
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Oh, Halloween. It’s that time of year again when kids dress scarily, teenagers dress scantily and Hollywood churns out another entry in the popular and highly bankable Saw series. This sixth episode caps off the second trilogy of the saga which follows the aftermath of central antagonist Jigsaw/John Kramer’s demise....
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I hope I’m not alone in saying that I like business based reality TV programs. I shouldn’t be: The Apprentice is one of the nation’s least guilty pleasures. People even seem to prefer it to hating on John and Edward (who, incidentally, need to win the X Factor), copying Victoria...
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Lisa Coghlan takes a look at the prejudices facing the Roma Communities in the Czech Rebublic and Europe today
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Warwick students are planning a protest in response to the presence of a number of arms companies at the upcoming Engineering Careers Fair on 17th November.
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Carla Bozulich’s muse is deadly: with every release since 2006’s disturbing, fractured Evangelista, the record that gave its name to the project she’s since piloted, it’s assumed a more ferocious, more sulphurous presence. Last year’s Hello Voyager intensified its electrified slow-burn into a penetratingly brilliant, fraught record – art-punk cowed...
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When I first heard Wolfmother several years ago I knew that they were more than just another seventies revivalist hard rock band. In 2005, the Australian hard rock trio of Stockdale, Chris Ross and Miles Heskett were catapulted to international fame after the release of their hugely successful self-titled debut...
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When the chips are down, recessions can, in actual fact, bring out the best in us.
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