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CINEMA REVIEWS

The latest cinema reviews from BGPS

In The Name Of (W Imie) (Cinema)

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If you don’t like ambiguity in your movies, you’re not going to be a fan of In The Name Of. However if you enjoy something a little challenging that’s designed to push buttons and get you questioning what you’re watching, then there’s a lot to admire about this film. It certainly got plenty of fans at film festivals, including winning the Golden Teddy, the annual award for best LGBT-themed movie at the Berlin Film Festival. [Read more…]

More Than Honey (Cinema)

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I’d like to coin a new genre of documentary, called the ‘Aren’t humans assholes’ genre. It’s becoming increasingly popular, where whatever the subject, at some point it has to get around to how people are screwing everything up. I’m not saying we aren’t screwing things up, but in everything from David Attenborough docs to More Than Honey, there’s an inevitability that at some point you’ll have to feel a bit guilty. [Read more…]

Kuma (Cinema)

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Ayse is young woman living in a small village in Turkey whose family has decided to marry her off to the handsome Hasan. However the arrangement is actually a way to get around polygamy laws, as Ayse is really going to move to Austria and become the second wife of Hasan’s father. Ayse is welcomed into the family by first wife Fatma, who has cancer and sees this new woman as the way her family will continue if the worst happens. Perhaps unsurprisingly some of the children, who’ve all grown up in the west, are unimpressed by this ‘bumpkin’ interloper. [Read more…]

The Lone Ranger (Cinema)

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When I saw that adaptation of The Lone Ranger was being made starring Jonny Depp, Armie Hammer and directed by Gore Verbinski, I couldn’t help but wonder whether a humorous western could really work with a young film audience who’ve being spoiled by huge Sci-Fi effects ridden blockbusters? Would the modern filmgoer still flock en masse to this type of film? Unfortunately, as US audiences have already proven, they won’t. But perhaps they should. [Read more…]

The Wolverine (Cinema)

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Hugh Jackman returns from flexing his vocal chords in Les Miserables to more familiar territory of flexing his muscles in his sixth outing as Logan, AKA The Wolverine. Jackman stated he wanted to explore who the man was behind Logan – the mutant with Adamantium claws – and he manages to do so with James Mangold at the helm

So after five previous outings as Logan (we’re counting his brief appearance in X-Men: First Class), where can his new ‘vision’ take us? Well, based on an old and much Marvel comic book story arc, this time around Wolverine is enticed to visit Japan by Yukio and summoned to the deathbed of an old ‘friend’, Yashida, who states he can offer Wolverine mortality. Things being to take a dangerous turn when an attempt is made to kidnap Yashida’s daughter, Mariko. [Read more…]

Les Invisibles (Cinema)

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Les Invisibles is an award winning French documentary about 11 gay men and women living in France, whose common link is their homosexuality and advancing ages. Each of the subjects talks about their experiences of being gay in less hospitable times, when anything homosexual was normally met with disdain, mistrust and violence. The film is basically an insight into their life journeys, and how society’s attitudes and the political landscape have changed. [Read more…]

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Cinema)

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On February 21st 2012, five members of the Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot decided to put on a performance at Moscow’s Christ The Saviour Cathedral. While a service was in progress they went up to the altar – dressed in the band’s trademark balaclavas – and started to sing. While they were stopped by security, footage of the event was soon turned into a video called, ‘Punk Prayer – Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!’, which protested what they see as the increasingly oppressive regime of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Othodox Leader’s support for him. [Read more…]

Out in the Dark (Cinema)

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Nimr (Nicholas Jacob), a Palestinian psychology student, has been granted permission to study in Israel.  While on a night out in Tel Aviv he meets a charming Israeli lawyer called Roy (Michael Aloni) and the two fall in love.  It seems things are going well for Nimr,  but when Israeli secret police threaten to expose his sexuality to his deeply conservative family, should he refuse to supply information on his dissident brother? Nimr finds his world falling apart and his life in danger.  Roy is the only hope Nimr has, but will the secret truth about his brother’s extremism come between them? [Read more…]

Come As You Are (Cinema)

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While there still aren’t a huge amount of films about disability, there are certainly more than there used to be. Just in the last year we’ve had the likes of Untouchable and The Sessions, and now a Belgian entry reaches British shores in the form of Come As You Are (Hasta La Vista).

The film follows young men Philip (Robrecht Vanden Thoren), who’s paralysed below the neck; Lars (Gilles De Schryver), whose brain tumour has resulted in him using a wheelchair; and the partially sighted Jozef (Tom Audenaert). While most of their lives consists of their families looking after and worrying about them, they decide to attempt a bit of independence and organise a secret holiday together. There’s one specific plan for this trip, to visit a Spanish brothel and lose their virginities. [Read more…]