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BANAZ: A LOVE STORY Film Review

Directed By Deeyah Khan Genre:  Documentary, Biography, Crime BANAZ: A LOVE STORY is a harrowing documentary that provides a powerful insight into a cultural issue that should be treated as an outrage in this country and internationally. In January 2006, Banaz, a vulnerable young Kurdish woman, was murdered by her own family in an honour killing for falling in love with a man who was not the husband she had been forced to marry when she was just 17. The portrayal of these chi...

A WEDDING MOST STRANGE Film Review.

Never mind the wedding, this was a pretty strange film.  A promising and fun set-up to this new British film comedy quickly digresses into the realms of the ridiculous. This is a fickle and senseless world, where characters appear to act at random and without motive, with laborious and lacklustre excuses for ‘twists’ in the script. Recent divorcee, Danny, has just two weeks in which to get married in order to fulfil the terms of his father’s will, which is due to expire, and regain hi...

A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP Film Review

British film 'A Thousand Kisses Deep', an ‘other worldly’ exploration of one woman’s attempts to rectify her past mistakes in an effort to save her future, sounded intriguing. However, the disjointed script and clumsy execution left me more peeved than piqued. An awkwardly abstract opening has Mia Selva (Jodie Whittaker) being reluctantly presented with a box of her mother’s possessions which she disposes of but they mysteriously reappear at her home (why this occurs never becomes appare...

ALBERT NOBBS Film Review

Beautifully shot, entertaining and heartbreaking, Albert Nobbs, based on the novella by George Moore, follows the experiences of an efficient unassuming butler at a hotel in Dublin. Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) is comfortable in his rigid, structured life, planning and saving to purchase his own business. However, when Nobbs meets Hubert Page (Janet McTeer) he is forced to confront his own identity and his ordered life becomes increasingly complicated.  The plot could be described as predicta...

ALBATROSS Film Review.

'Albatross' Flies With Humour And Heart "Albatross" - noun 1. a large seabird that spends most of its life in flight. 2. An oppressive and inescapable fact or influence from the past. Seventeen year old Emilia is a force of nature; beautiful, smart but most of all trouble. Taking up work in a seaside hotel she finds herself drawn to the family who run it. Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), a successful writer in his younger days, spent the earnings of his only hit book on the hotel he and his family run...