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Birds Eye View welcomed a healthy amount of both men and women to its International Women’s Day Gala event. Now in its tenth year of operation, BEV was set up by Rachel Millward and Pinny Grylls (the former still stands […]
★★☆☆☆ Darragh Byrne’s debut feature Parked (2011), starring Bel Ami’s Colm Meaney and Colin Morgan, is a disappointing example of contemporary Irish cinema, especially when compared to last year’s triumphant and hugely successful comedy The Guard (2011). The film follows […]
★★★☆☆ Stephane Rybojad’s Special Forces (Forces spéciales, 2011) follows a French military unit’s high-risk mission to rescue anti-war correspondent Elsa Casanova (Diane Kruger) from Taliban capture. Taken hostage by Taliban insurgents, Elsa and a companion face the threat of eminent […]
★★☆☆☆ The death of Joyce Vincent came under great media scutiny in 2003. Her skeleton, identified dentally by a picture of her smiling, was found decomposed after three years of lying unnoticed in her North London flat. This much we […]
★★★☆☆ From first-time director D.R. Hood and starring the unquestionable talents of Claire Foy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shaun Evans, Artificial Eye’s Wreckers (2011) clearly has a great deal going in its favour. Its Ely (Cambridgeshire) setting makes a refreshing change […]