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    Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai
    Takashi Miike
    Seeking a noble end, poverty-stricken Samurai Hanshiro requests to commit ritual suicide at the House... Find out more →
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    Troll Hunter
    André Øvredal
    Whilst investigating a series of suspicious bear killings, a group of students trail a mysterious 'hunter'... Find out more →
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    Shame
    Steve McQueen
    Brandon is a 30-something man living comfortably in New York, balancing a busy job and active social... Find out more →
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    Buck
    Cindy Meehl
    This award-winning, visually stunning film follows "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman from his troubled... Find out more →
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  • Trouble With Sex

    This was a rather dull film mostly shot in annoying semi-darkness (perhaps fashionable at the time of making - 2004). There is not a spark of humour in the whole thing. Aidan Gillen is good, as usual, but the main female lead, in a bad hair-do, was just not up to the part, I'm afraid. Everybody smokes all the time which is pretty disgusting to watch today and the sex scenes (with her remaining fully clothed) failed to convince. I presume we were not supposed to empathise with any of these unpleasant characters and I, for one, didn't.

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  • Snowtown

    An excellent Australian film that didn't stay too long in cinemas. Disturbing and raw, but fascinating. Also, amazing performance by Daniel Henshall as the terrifying John Bunting.

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  • Snowtown

    An excellent Australian film that didn't stay too long in cinemas. Disturbing and raw, but fascinating. Also, amazing performance by Daniel Henshall as the terrifying John Bunting.

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  • The Guard

    While this is an amusing enough romp with the Gleeson character allowed to awkward and quirky, it is seriously undermined by credibility issues: (1)new recruit missing in squad car and nobody notices (2)two prostitutes arrive by train dressed in Garda uniforms and mini-skirts (3) Cheadle, as FBI officer, engaged in gun battle on foreign territory and liaising only with local sergeant.

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  • Weapon of Choice - the Samurai Sword in Cinema

    Western interest in films such as Takashi Miike’s latest release, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, owes at least something to moviemakers’ and moviegoers’ fascination with the samurai sword, or katana. Fetishized sometimes to the point of absurdity, this weapon has come to occupy a place in cinema once reserved for the cowboy’s six-shooter. It is a visual stand-in for a partly martial, partly spiritual discipline, in which precision and dexterity—always hallmarks of the hero—are the difference between life and death. It also just looks very cool.

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  • A Look at Sex Addiction in Cinema

    Steve McQueen's Shame takes a sharp, clever look at the often misunderstood phenomenon of sex addiction.

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  • Horse Whisperers & Rain Men

    With this week’s release of Buck, a documentary chronicling the real life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, we take a look at 6 different films and the actual people that inspired them.

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  • Yer Only Man: Irish Television Puppets

    The release of new documentary Being Elmo has got us thinking about the wealth of great puppet-based children’s programming we were lucky to have had over the decades. For a small island, Ireland had produced some fantastic home-grown childrens programming. From Judge and Crow all the way up along to the notorious Podge and Rodge, Volta takes a look at some of the nation’s favourite Irish puppets.

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