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  • TGIM! Film Africa 2012

    Building on last year’s success, Film Africa is back in London with another goldmine of shorts, documentaries and features that showcase the cinematic identity of a continent largely unseen on an international stage. With some 70 films in town, there’s every reason to take a trip to some of the more unlikely destinations of world cinema.




  • Friday Drinking game #63 – Stanley Kubrick

    In honour of the release of The Shining conspiracy flick Room 237 and next week’s extended US cut of the seminal horror, Stanley Kubrick gets his masterpieces soaked in a flood of warm cut-price plonk. It’s Friday, so give your weekend the box-set treatment and annoy some friends with your best HAL 9000 impression: “I’m afraid I can’t let you drink that.” Classic.




  • Beasts Of The Southern Wild

    One of the most buzzed-about films of the year is finally here, and its reputation as magical, realistic, liberal, conservative, sentimental and hard-skinned is well-earned. Hard to pigeonhole and even harder to dislike, Beasts of the Southern Wild is an engaging swamp romp that has given the world a star in six year-old Quvenzhané Wallis.