African Apocalypse (dir. Rob Lemkin) is a startling film – both in the sense of the recorded accounts of atrocities that occurred within the Niger, Africa, but also the unsettling feeling of the repetitiveness of the conditions that allowed these crimes to occur. Femi Nylander is a British-Nigerian Oxford student who
Okay, so let it be known upfront that I’m a fan on Ben Wheatley. His filmography may be varied, and not every project is a hit, but by and large I know that when Ben Wheatley is directing a movie at the least that movie is going to be something
For a director with several well-regarded classics under his belt (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Robert Zemeckis' career has since spiraled down a negative trajectory. Recent offerings like Welcome to Marwen and Allied rank among the director's weakest offerings, with these films showcasing Zemeckis' creative
How to Disappear, by Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner & Michael Stumpf, tries to push the boundaries of the first-person shooter video game Battlefield. Whilst calmly musing on the history of desertion in war, the players learn that it is impossible to desert the battlefield. If the player persists in their
By John Battiston. One visiting East London suburb Hornchurch for the first or hundredth time wouldn't possibly think to liken it to southern California, the epicenter of, among a bevy of other phenomena, skate culture. But upon entering the ramshackle gates of The Rom, a forty-year-old, 8,000-square-metre skatepark built within a
