There have been many critics of the drone that the CIA introduced back in 2002 during the ‘War on Terror’, as it takes the human being away from the killing, almost softening the impact of the action and detracting from the sense of…
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With every new David Cronenberg movie comes a level of excitement. My anticipation for Crimes of the Future rose with reports of a six-minute standing ovation from Cannes. What really piqued my interest were reports of walk-outs from Cannes….
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Flickreel is taking to the skies! We are proud to be launching a new project, this time in the world of drones. DRONEWORK, a drone mission matching platform connecting drone operators with drone missions commissioned by clients around the world, is…
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As brothers Alex and Benjamin Brewer present their debut feature film The Trust, you can see influences from another pair of siblings exceptionally prevalent (in an affectionate manner) in their work. The Coen Brothers too thrived off the notion…
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Spanish cinema, whether it be from the great Luis Bunuel or the absorbing Pedro Almodovar, is so often depicted with a gloriously heightened take on reality, melodramatic in an endearing way, managing to find a find a compatible balance between…
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American Hustle appears to be following on a similar trend to director David O. Russell’s previous two features, The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, in that it is yet another of the New York born filmmakers’ productions to be a key…
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Wrestling is real. Sure, the routines may be preordained with a story that’s essentially a soap opera. That doesn’t mean the physical toll is fake, however. The Iron Claw is just as much about the mental toll. If you’re familiar with the “Von Erich…
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My knowledge of country music doesn’t extend much further beyond Dolly Parton. The name Tanya Tucker rang a bell, but before seeing this documentary, I couldn’t tell you that she was the artist behind Delta Dawn and Two Sparrows in a Hurricane. The…
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It’s become commonplace in the industry to see Australian actors move across the United States and make films in Hollywood, but rarely do we see this occur the other way round. Yet, Adrien Brody – who takes on the lead in Michael…
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Around the mid-point of Ken Loach’s quietly angry new feature I, Daniel Blake, one of the two central characters, a late twenties single mother named Katie (Hayley Squires), is walking around a food bank. Her and her family are in dire need of…
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