Fourth edition of UnderWire film festival kicks off on Tuesday 19 November at the Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick, East London.
You are invited to join the org...
This is call for submissions from the team behind the London Feminist Film Festival that premiered last December, becoming a big success. Ania blogged about las...
Banishanta is a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal, some 300 feet long and 30 feet wide. The island is sinking due to tropical storms and a rising sea level, cr...
With her neck still hurting from trying to read the subtitles over people's heads, Jess McCabe hails director Wu Tsang's sensitive portrait of one Los Angeles bar
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Impressed with director Christine Beck's dedication to her first feature, Katherine Wootton praises the story of two women caught up in a quest for bodily perfection
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Some children grow up faster than others.
This happens often in the war zones, with parents killed or missing and children left to stand up for themselves or t...
Selina Robertson reviews New Yorker Madeleine Olnek's debut feature and chats to the director about sci-fi B-movies from the 1950s and the advantages of video over film
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Hit So Hard: the life and near-death story of Patty Schemel is a 2011 documentary by P. David Ebersole that tells a story of Hole, one of the most exciting fema...
Cazz Blase enjoys the documentary about Hole's drummer Patty Schemel that puts one of the most exciting bands of the 1990s firmly on the rock'n'roll map without losing intimate touch
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Among other things, December 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the theatrical release of David's Lean Lawrence of Arabia, a Hollywood epic that unfolds over almos...
With many screenings sold out already, a vibrant website featuring interviews with filmmakers and a four day programme packed full of films from around the wo...
UnderWire festival opened last night for the third time. It was launched in 2010 by Gabriella Apicella and Gemma Mitchell who believed that women working in the...
Chrissy D reviews a documentary about the impact of poverty on childbirth around the globe, presented by DocHouse as part of Why Poverty? series, and calls for maternal health to be taken more seriously everywhere
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Having resisted an urge to walk out of the screening of Compliance, Charlotte Rowland denounces the film as nothing more than misogynist torture-porn that should be stripped off its aura of "edginess" once and for all
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About a year ago a post from Social Justice League blog went viral (and gets new comments until today!). It is titled 'How to be a fan of problematic things' an...
