Kalki 2898 AD: Review. By Samhith Ankam. Kind of insane???? For Tollywood standards, this is such a successful reskin of conventional sci-fi without any real “take-me-outs” in relation to the budget. It looks “good”, and copious amounts of grain in the frame (digitally shot so it’s added digitally) makes it

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Aloners: Review. By Joe Muldoon. Some films adopt such an incisive realism that they resemble fly-on-the-wall documentary filmmaking more than cinema itself – first-timer Hong Sung-eun’s Aloners presents itself as such, similarly to Ken Loach’s 2016 drama I, Daniel Blake. A miserably Sisyphean existence, call centre worker Jina (Gong Seung-yeon)

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Land Of Mine: Review. By Joe Muldoon. Exploring a world ravaged by conflict, Martin Zandvliet’s Oscar-nominated 2015 postwar drama Land Of Mine (a fantastic pun in itself) is a deeply moving exercise in humanity. Set in Denmark immediately following the end of WWII, a group of German teenage POWs are

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