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BEV 2013: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers – Small Stories, Big Pictures.

BEV 2013: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers – Small Stories, Big Pictures.

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  Bird’s Eye-View have been championing and celebrating women in film through yearly festivals, programmes and events in what is still a massively phallocentric industry. Because cinema is ingrained so deep in culture, it is easy for many to never even notice the lack of female directors or screenwriters so…

Theatre Review: Blood Privilege

Theatre Review: Blood Privilege

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Blood Privilege is a chilling and atmospheric theatrical experience currently on in the deep dark pit of the White Rabbit Theatre.  The timing of this production seems just right, as it comes on the tail end of pop culture’s love affair of the last five years or so with vampires…

Film Review: Spring Breakers

Film Review: Spring Breakers

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  Gummo director Harmony Korine brings us a stylish thriller full of nudity and inebriation in his latest film Springbreakers. Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachael Korine) are four university students in search of an escape from their mundane life on campus. They see…

Theatre Review: Before The Party

Theatre Review: Before The Party

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  Before The Party by Rodney Ackland is a chilling and comedic portrayal of the petty preoccupations of post-war Britain’s upper-middle class and their desire to hide their imperfections. Though this might sound a bit doomy and gloomy , I can guarantee you it will have you in stitches !…

Theatre Review: Script Sessions – Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton

Theatre Review: Script Sessions – Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton

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Easter weekend kicked off at the Courtyard Theatre with a packed house to see an evening of original short plays hosted by the Duckdown Theatre company. The Script Sessions gives four up and coming playwrights the chance to take a crack at conceiving a 15 minute play and to win…

Film Review: Trance

Film Review: Trance

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  From the brains behind the Olympic opening ceremony last summer comes an intriguing psychological thriller with enough mind boggling twists and turns to leave you exiting the cinema in a bit of a trance yourself. Danny Boyle returns to familiar ground with a film that begins with an audacious…

Film Review: Reincarnated

Film Review: Reincarnated

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Editor of Vice magazine Andy Capper makes his directorial debut with a documentary that recounts Hip Hop legend, Snoop Dogg’s journey from renouncing the violence filled music that made him famous, to making peaceful reggae music and his conversion to the Rastafarian religion.  The documentary does partly explore his motivations…

Celebrate Food, art and music: Consume Creativity with Appetite 2013

Celebrate Food, art and music: Consume Creativity with Appetite 2013

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Just a few minutes away from Hackney via  Lea Bridge Road or a more leisurely bike ride along the River Lea, is Waltham Forest, a borough as diverse as Hackney.  Hassan Vawda previews a new addition to the boroughs growing artistic and culinary community events. Appetite 2013 is a brand…

Film Review: Maniac

Film Review: Maniac

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The original Maniac is a grimy affair, covered in a crust of cum and blood it has a deserved reputation of being totally unpalatable. It is however an interesting concept and it does push your buttons, and with this modern revamping, it is at least equally horrible, but instead of covered in…

Film Review: Welcome to the Punch

Film Review: Welcome to the Punch

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From Writer/Director Eran Creevy, better known for his 2008 crime drama Shifty, comes a slick looking British thriller in the form of Welcome to the Punch. When ex-con Jacob Sternwood (Strong) returns to London from his hideout in the Icelandic wilderness, due to his son being involved in a heist…