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There’s more to home than bricks and stones

There’s more to home than bricks and stones

If Brick Mansions seems very familiar, it is because it is a remake of Luc Besson’s (and Bibi Naceri’s) script Banlieue 13 and Besson has written the new script.   It is also reminiscent of a host of ...
Blazing performance in Half of a Yellow Sun

Blazing performance in Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the Orange Prize winning novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is the directorial debut of the Nigerian/British novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele-Thomas.  Biyi Bandele w ...
Another fantasy series with Divergent

Another fantasy series with Divergent

In the beginning there was Harry Potter, a coming-of-age fantasy about finding one’s identity along a path filled with angels and demons.  Then came the atmospheric melodrama Twilight, with a strong f ...
A culture clash for Honour

A culture clash for Honour

Honour is a British film about the topical issue of honour killings that take place – at the rate of 12 a year – right here in the UK and at the rate of 5,000 worldwide.  The directorial debut of scri ...