Another Child is a well paced South Korean family drama with very strong, relatable performances at its centre. It concerns the reprecussions of an affair between a married man and a single mother and what effect it has on their family, more specifically their two daughters who find out about them before anyone else. The […]

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One Day in The Life of Noah Piugattuk begins with a startling opening shot of an arctic morning. We see a snow covered Inuit land comprised of Igloos and sled dogs laying about. We hear the soft, quiet voice of the film’s title character reading from the bible as we cut to him inside his […]

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This is part of a religion in film series, concerning spirituality in its many forms through the cinematic lens. In this article I will be exploring Carl Theodore Dreyer’s 1928 masterpiece “The Passion of Joan of Arc”. The film chronicles the real life trial of Joan who was burned at the stake for claiming she […]

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