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Constructors written and directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov. Kazakstan 67 mins I read that this was a comedy. There are two possibilities. Either the word ‘comedy’ means something very different in Kazakstan or Kazakstanis have a very different […]
‘Let’s go shopping,’ are the first words of The Bling Ring, but the speaker hasn’t just entered a shop. Instead she and her school-friends have broken into Paris Hilton’s house in Hollywood. Did they use […]
I’m not messy, I’m busy… The Dominion cinema in Edinburgh was the venue for the UK premiere of Frances Ha, introduced by the director Noah Baumbach and co-writer/star Greta Gerwig. Officially it is part of […]
It doesn’t matter which side of the Palestine/Israel mess you are on, there’s something wrong when people are having to use home-made ladders to climb over a seven metre high wall in order to get […]