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If someone says Russian film and you think Eisenstein then you need to get a new perspective. The London Russian Film Festival is taking place at the Empire, Leicester Square until 17th November and introducing the […]
In Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska” a father and son steer the American road comedy into a vanishing Midwest on the trail of a dubious fortune – and in search of an understanding of each other that […]
Figures from war zones are always hard to pin down with any precision, but the UN estimates 40,000 people died in the last weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War. 6,000 – 10,000 are believed […]
It was a basic, high concept: throw a couple of stars in space, introduce them to peril and watch in hope that they will overcome adversity and make it back to earth, and in the […]