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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
6 June 2015, by Ryan Ormonde
Young children are often very receptive to new ideas. In 1987 when my favourite toy was adapted into a Hollywood movie ’Masters of The Universe’ I lapped it up, even though the film played fast and loose with the He-Man story so familiar to me from the cartoons, tapes and books I made my mum buy me along with all those brightly coloured, muscly figurines. The hyper-consumerist 1980s was a strange place anyway, so I was oblivious to the fact that in watching Masters of the Universe I was (...)
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Heaven Adores You
11 May 2015, by Hazel Green
The film opens on an interview with Elliott, his voice characteristically unassuming, sincere and generous in spirit. "I’m the wrong kind of person," he says, "to be really big and famous." However, throughout we learn he did enjoy a certain amount of fame; even describing his incongruous appearance at the 1998 Academy Awards as fun for the day, a kick. And yet, friends talk of how Elliott fled local acclaim in Portland for relative obscurity in New York. According to one former (...)
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The Hermitage Revealed and The Great Museum – ‘The Exhibitionists’ series at Dochouse
10 May 2015, by Judy Harris
‘The Exhibitionists’ is a collection of films about collections. The series brings together four cinematic portraits of European museums; the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna, the National Gallery in London, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and The Hermitage in St Petersberg. Each film explores a treasure trove of paintings, trinkets and costumes from various princely collections. These gilded objects are fetishised, protected and adored; their value to the nation-state is taken to be implicit. (...)
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Top Five
8 May 2015, by Coco Green
Chris Rock gives an updated twist to the boy-meets-girl story here, playing Andre Allen, a not-so-funny-anymore-since-getting-sober comedian, as he promotes his first serious film ’Uprize’ on its opening night to a disinterested public. Gaining attention for a movie about the largest slave uprising in the New World is almost impossible and it’s clear from Andre’s promotional rounds that no one cares about serious black films, unless they’re blaming each other for their own oppression (or (...)
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Save the Tavern and We Came to Sweat
26 April 2015, by Ryan Ormonde
A campaign to save a legendary nightclub is the theme of two separate documentaries depicting the fight to save community and history from their demolition by property developers. The Starlite in Brooklyn, New York is the subject of Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel’s We Came To Sweat while the ongoing fight to Save the Tavern (specifically the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in South London) is the impetus behind Tim Brunsden’s film of that name.
Up to a point the films have a similar structure, (...)
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The Reel Deal’s Which Films To Watch This Weekend
10 March 2015, by Mydylarama team
The team’s films to watch - Still Alice, Hyena, Dream Catcher
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Enemies of Happiness - Best of Dochouse
2 March 2015, by Miranda Mungai
Enemies of Happiness/ Vores lykkes fjender is a powerful exploration of the determination and sheer hard work of Malalai Joya in the ten days leading up to the 2005 Afghanistan elections-the first democratic parliamentary election in over 30 years and the first in which women were allowed to vote. We follow her trials as a female political candidate, accurately self-described as a ‘woman among warlords’. The film hums with the constant buzz of radio announcements and news stories, (...)
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It Follows
21 February 2015, by Abla Kandalaft
Critics’ Week’s best film (in this writer’s opinion) has finally landed in the UK. I was surprised -and delighted- to find out a horror film was among the competition’s selection, despite its championing of genre cinema. And I have to admit, shamefully, that I did think chances were it would be a little too experimental and left-field to really provoke genuine scares and jumps and provide pure entertainment. But David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is, in fact, bone-chillingly enjoyable. (...)
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The Reel Deal’s Which Films To Watch This Weekend
20 February 2015, by Mydylarama team
Our patners at The Reel Deal’s Films To Watch This Weekend, presented by Joe Forreseter and Rebecca Perfect:
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The Reel Deal’s Which Films To Watch This Weekend
13 February 2015, by Mydylarama team
Our patners at The Reel Deal’s Films To Watch This Weekend, presented by Joe Forreseter and Rebecca Perfect, released to coincide with the Clapham PH’s special screening of Love is Strange.