Marc Quinn – Making Waves (2014)
Artists on film have always been fascinating subjects. Whether we watch them to gain insight into their works or personalities, or whether we watch the excess and absurd pointlessness of it all, what...
View ArticleSerena (2014)
Serena is a film that tries to be many worthy things, that thinks it is all of these many worthy things, yet in the end becomes only those things that we initially see it for: superficially stunning...
View Article2015 Sheffield Doc/Fest
Thursday the 7th of May saw the official press launch of the 2015 Sheffield Doc/Fest at the BFI Southbank, London. Doc/Fest is the UK’s, and increasingly the world’s, foremost documentary and factual...
View ArticleSheffield Doc/Fest 2015, days 1-3
OPENING NIGHT The sunny weather came out just in time on Friday afternoon. After a rather hectic hour or so standing in queues to get passes and tickets (though it seemed everyone had the same idea as...
View ArticleSheffield Doc/Fest 2015, days 4-6
DAY FOUR Day four of the festival and things are in full swing now, all over Sheffield there are talks taking place and drinks being held, deep within the bowels of the Festival buildings projects are...
View ArticleThe Look of Silence (2014)
In his 2012 film The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer committed to film one of the most remarkably affecting pieces of investigative madness ever seen. His response to the knowledge that the...
View ArticleThe Greatest Shows on Earth (2014)
The second opening event of the night really was an event. The Sheffield City Hall was the perfect venue for a celebration of Fairgrounds and Shows, with the fine folk from The Invisible Circus putting...
View ArticleBlack Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is Stanley Nelson’s fantastic, comprehensive account, made for PBS, of the historic rise to power and eventual demise of the Black Panther Party. The film...
View ArticleThe Hunting Ground (2014)
The Hunting Ground is Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s follow up to their multi-award winning 2012 film The Invisible War. Where the latter was an investigation of institutionalised rape in the US...
View ArticleMavis! (2015)
Mavis! is Jessica Edwards’ joyful, rollicking portrait of the living legend Mavis Staples. It is more than this though, it is also a wonderful journey through America’s social and musical history....
View ArticlePress Release – Marc Quinn: Making Waves (2014)
MARC QUINN – MAKING WAVES Director/Producer: Gerry Fox UK 2014, Foxy Films; 84 minutes MARC QUINN – MAKING WAVES is a fascinating documentary about a year in the life of one of the UK’s most...
View ArticleElephant Song (2014)
Elephant Song, Charles Biname’s 2014 Canadian psychological thriller, arrives on VOD platforms in the UK on Monday the 13th July. And yet despite the glaring lack of theatrical release or promotion, it...
View ArticleOut of the Clouds (1955)
By 1955, Ealing Studios had already established itself as one of Britain’s foremost film production establishments, producing between 1948 and this time some of the country’s best loved films – 1949’s...
View ArticleBest of Enemies (2015)
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.” – Gore Vidal “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” –...
View ArticleAddicted to Sheep (2015)
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015 has given us so far many different types of documentaries: we’ve had serious historical documents, socially important advocacy films, bonkers weirdo films and joyous musical...
View ArticleHustlers Convention (2015)
Hustlers Convention is the landmark 1973 album by Lightnin’ Rod, aka. Jalal Nurridin, founding member of The Last Poets and the grandfather of modern day rap. It is also the new film from British...
View ArticleThe Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead (2015)
The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead is the fantastic new music documentary from talented fanboy Wes Orshoski, and arrives at Sheffield with quite a bit of hype and quite a lot to live up to. His...
View ArticleHow To Change The World Release
PICTUREHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE THIS SEPTEMBER Picturehouse Entertainment announced today that they will be releasing the critically acclaimed,...
View ArticleHow To Change The World (2015)
2015 has so far been a stellar year for documentary filmmaking. We’ve seen an acceptance of documentary as a form of big budget film entertainment like never before. We’ve seen documentaries become...
View ArticleLONDON 2015 – Live From New York! (2015)
There are a few American comedy institutions – long-running television series like The Simpsons and companies like National Lampoon – but none of these seem to have the endearing attraction for the...
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