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Post Views: 0 Little Eggs: An African Rescue review – a head-scrambling animated ordeal Why are the kids talking eggs and not hatched chicks? Little Eggs: an African Rescue. Photograph: © Huevocartoon Producciones A family of anthropomorphised eggs land themselves in hot water in a dismal film full of garish visuals …
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Post Views: 1 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review – Murakami’s surreal tales around a Tokyo earthquake The elusive essence of Murakami … Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Film The seductively quirky sad-serious tone of the author is evident as a constellation of characters try and save the city – including a …
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Post Views: 9 The Gallery review – bloody interactive treatise on post-Brexit Britain Trenchant, thoughtful … Anna Popplewell in The Gallery Viewers can choose the outcome of the characters in this cleverly assembled art-world thriller available on PC, console and your local screen Interactive cinema has existed since the 1967 Czech …
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Post Views: 10 Drømmeland review – hermit and his smartphone in the Norwegian wilderness Gawking at its subject … Drømmeland Drømmeland review – hermit and his smartphone in the Norwegian wilderness This voyeuristic account of an eccentric who broadcasts himself hunting naked never meaningfully addresses his paradoxical existence Having resolved …
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