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Harvest Time is Upon Us

Hamish Mackenzie - 3 January 2023

Tomorrow January 5th may be the last chance for a while to get to see the Neil Young documentary Harvest Time, at 3pm at...

Cinema

Beyond Otherness

Khadijat Akande - 14 December 2022

“What skin colour would you like your child to be?” asks the advisor seated across from the black couple. “You could have a white baby,...

Arts & Culture

Make Sure To Add This One To The Playlist

Flore Ghulam - 31 October 2022

For those who want a break from Halloween, we've got the perfect series for you to binge on. The Playlist is Netflix's new docu-drama miniseries about the...

Arts & Culture

Dont Get Slap Happy With Will

Nadrine Narku - 3 May 2022

Will Smith’s Oscars altercation is still generating buzz - and more. Since “the slap”, the Academy has met and banned Smith from all Academy...

Arts & Culture

Boxing Day Movie Review

Shirin Ghayad - 13 December 2021

Boxing Day is a rom-com by Aml Ameen, in which Hollywood-based novelist Melvin returns to his British Caribbean family in London for Christmas with...

Arts & Culture

‘The Amazing Writerman’: 30 Days With A Screenwriter

Thomas Flanagan - 7 December 2021

Creative writing can be a mind-blowingly stressful occupation that requires a herculean amount of effort, mental expenditure and a painstakingly long amount of time,...

Arts & Culture

After We Fell: Movie Review

Shirin Ghayad - 27 October 2021

As a fan of the 'After' books I was very excited to get to go to the exclusive Amazon Prime UK screening of After...

Arts & Culture

Mortal Kombat The Movie: Delight Or Disaster?

Lucas Dos Santos - 6 May 2021

They've done it again! Another live adaptation of a beloved video game franchise. Mortal Kombat is here, but is it worth it? As a...

Arts & Culture

00:05:15

BEEF OVER BORAT?

Allazhar Duisenbek - 2 December 2020

Who is Borat mocking? The Khazaks or the Americans? To find out Allazhar Duisenbek found one outspoken citizen from each country and asked them...

Posts from the Pandemic

The Covid-19 Story: Coming To An Entertainment Centre Near You

Lucas Dos Santos - 2 December 2020

The Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Black Death, WWI and WWII have all been immortalised in movies, books, television shows and video games. And...

Arts & Culture

The Barbarians – Are They So Barbaric?

Rising East Publications - 12 November 2020

New Netflix drama series The Barbarians sets grungy, unruly Germanic tribes against the mighty Roman legions. Along the way it also asks us to...

Cinema

The Legend of Sean Connery

Elena Donatone - 4 November 2020

Scottish actor Sean Connery died aged 90 on Saturday 31 October 2020. He passed away peacefully in his sleep in the Bahamas, surrounded by...

Arts & Culture

Cleopatra Casting Needles Critics

Maimouna Sow - 3 November 2020

Social media users are outraged over the decision to cast Gal Gadot for the leading role in the up and coming film, Cleopatra The...

Arts & Culture

Support Your Local Cinema

Maria Fetsani - 27 October 2020

Cinema was one of the first industries to be hit by the COVID lockdowns, but just as people were starting to return to the...

Posts from the Pandemic

Drive-In Cinema Fails To Reach Higher Gear

Rising East Publications - 11 May 2020

We're still in lockdown (sort of), but in Europe there's a new choice: you can stay in with Netflix or go see a film...

Arts & Culture

Is #BlackAF really BlackAF?

Bathilde Ibenge - 6 May 2020

Netflix recently aired a news show called #BlackAF. Yes you read the title correctly, but it's not the title that has made the show...

Posts from the Pandemic

Lockdown Lists No 3: Top 12 Korean Dramas

Katerina Badoova - 21 April 2020

Now that the UK has been in quarantine for more than a month, you've probably watched all the Netflix shows you'd previously heard of....

Arts & Culture

Lockdown Lists No 2: Our Top Five Isolation Movies

Elena Donatone - 15 April 2020

At first lockdown might have seemed like a holiday to some. No school, no work and no alarm in the morning. But as the...

Arts & Culture

Lockdown Lists No 1: Our Top Five Pandemic Movies

Elena Donatone - 15 April 2020

As the U.K. enters its third week of lockdown, more and more people are watching films that resemble our new 'pandemic' reality. One of...

Arts & Culture

Disney Plus: Was It Worth The Wait?

Ava Rogha - 8 April 2020

The long-awaited arrival of Disney Plus has allowed me to binge watch my way back into the past. For £5.99 a month or a...

Health & Wellbeing

Posts From The Pandemic No. 14: Did ‘Contagion’ Predict COVID-19?

Ava Rogha - 25 March 2020

Warning: SPOILER ALERT!! At a time like this - when being afraid of Coronavirus has become the new “normal” - the 2011 thriller Contagion has never felt...

Arts & Culture

Posts From The Pandemic No. 10: Nine Ways To Kill The Time

Katerina Badoova - 25 March 2020

Thanks to COVID-19 we are all stuck at home most of the time. So here are nine ways to kill the boredom Watch one...

Celebrity

The Reality of Reality TV

Ava Rogha - 23 March 2020

Following The Bachelor's recent two-part season finale, fans were outraged by the shocking reaction of pilot Pete's mother to the last woman standing, and took to...

Arts & Culture

Me And Mr Jones

Olga Savic - 3 March 2020

Mr. Jones is about the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who exposed the truth about famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It...

Arts & Culture

Ragnarok: You Might Even Change Your Mind About Sci-fi

Ava Rogha - 17 February 2020

Science fiction and fantasy are not the genres I watch Netflix for. In fact I have tried to avoid them as best as I...

Arts & Culture

Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana Lands On Netflix

Francesca Battaglia - 15 February 2020

Netflix’s Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana is surprisingly enjoyable, even for someone like me who is relatively indifferent to celebrities. Directed by Lana Wilson, the film...

Arts & Culture

Parasite Deserves To Infect The World

Katerina Badoova - 10 February 2020

The South Korean movie Parasite seems to have made the world its host. Parasite has broken the Oscar's language barrier as the first non English...

Cinema

Parasite: “anti-capitalism that fears the masses”

Rising East Publications - 10 February 2020

INCLUDES MILD SPOILERS "In short, I don't think Parasite is that good at all. "The film is about poverty, class and how the poor try to...

Cinema

Visions Of The Horse Girl

Rising East Publications - 10 February 2020

Netflix has brought us one of its most controversial and chilling films yet. Horse Girl directed by Jeff Baena, which premiered at the famous...

Arts & Culture

Are The BAFTAs Too ‘White’ British?

Benedicty Sukama - 10 February 2020

Last night’s Best Picture at the Oscar’s, the Korean film Parasite, also won a major award at the recent BAFTAs - though that time...

Arts & Culture

Looking Over Last Year’s Films

Rising East Publications - 29 January 2020

Tomorrow's 40th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards (LCCFA) ceremony at the May Fair Hotel in London features sixteen prizes, including those for 2019's best...

Cinema

Andra Guti: Star In the Making

Lucas Dos Santos - 23 January 2020

As the film industry is growing, more young talent is coming in. Some of these young actors come from an international background. It is...

Cinema

Time For 2020 Vision When It Comes To Relationships

Ava Rogha - 5 January 2020

We have just emerged from the sparkly Christmas season during which romance is presented even more er… romantically… than usual. But Santa and Cinderella...

Cinema

The Irishman: How The Family F**** You Up

Lucas Dos Santos - 27 November 2019

Martin Scorsese’s newest gangster flick, The Irishman, is streamed on Netflix from today, and it comes with big guns. The movie is based on...

Cinema

Five Horror Movies To Have Seen This Halloween

Ava Rogha - 31 October 2019

There are several ways to celebrate Halloween, which is one of my favourite holidays. Some people throw parties, others go trick or treating with...

Cinema

The Joker Is A Seriously Good Movie

Lucas Dos Santos - 16 October 2019

Ever since we had our first glimpse of Joaquin Phoenix as the new clown prince of crime, when the trailer for The Joker was...

Arts & Culture

Imperfect Perfect Date

Ava Rogha - 12 May 2019

Teenage heartthrob Noah Centineo, famously known for his role as Peter Kavinsky in Netlfix original movie, To All the Boys I’ve loved Before, returns...

Arts & Culture

Dumbo Vs. Dumbo

Ava Rogha - 4 April 2019

2019 is the year of three high profile releases of Disney cartoon classics. The Lion King - first released in 1994 - will come...

Arts & Culture

Dexter and Mitov: The Career Of Emma Stone

Hugh Dexter - 14 March 2019

In the second of of their actor specials Hugh Dexter and Mihail Mitov take a tour through the career of Emma Stone, from her early...

Arts & Culture

Dexter And Mitov: A Close Look At Robert De Niro

Hugh Dexter - 14 March 2019

In the first of their actor specials, Hugh Dexter and Mihail Mitov explore the filmography of screen legend Robert De Niro. https://www.mixcloud.com/dexterandmitovfilmpodcast/dexter-and-mitov-film-podcast-robert-de-niro-special/

Cinema

Green Book: a subtle, on point Oscar winner

Patricia Graca - 27 February 2019

Green Book won the 2019 Oscar for best movie and deservedly so. It is a comedy-drama inspired by the true story of a friendship between...

Cinema

Dexter and Mitov: what’s the score with the Oscars?

Rising East Publications - 26 February 2019

New to Rising East, Dexter and Mitov is a podcast all about film, featuring eponymous hosts Mihail Mitov and Hugh Dexter. https://www.mixcloud.com/dexterandmitovfilmpodcast/dexter-and-mitov-film-podcast-oscar-reaction/ Also featuring special guest,...

Cinema

Method Acting: Vice or Virtue?

Rising East - 11 February 2019

With the recent release of Adam McKay’s Vice, the concept of method acting has again become a talking point in the film community. I...

Arts & Culture

The Lion King Remake: Leader Of The Pride Or Quick Cash-In?

Katerina Badoova - 7 December 2018

Disney has finally released the first trailer for Jon Favreau’s CGI computer animated remake of the traditionally animated 1994 film The Lion King. Given the...