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London Film Festival 2013: Salvo Review

By Cognitive Space on 22/11/2013

This Italian mob story tells the story of brooding Salvo (Saleh Bakri). He is a mafia hitman who in the opening scene guns down some hitmen how have cornered him. Salvo gets one to talk who tells him that Renato hired them. He goes to his house to kill him in one of the best […]

London Film Festival 2013 Review: Heli

By Cognitive Space on 22/11/2013

Drug cartels have been in popular culture for many years now. From Scarface, to Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, to TV shows like Breaking Bad and the amazing Mexican thriller Miss Bala. Movies like these show the large scale side of cartel action. Occasionally there comes a film that shows the effect of the cartel on a […]

London Film Festival 2013: New World (Sin-se-gae) Review

By Cognitive Space on 22/11/2013

What happens when you combine Infernal Affairs / The Departed with The Godfather and set it in South Korea? New World happens New World opens with a brutal torture scene that involves being force fed liquid cement and being buried at sea. This is our introduction to the Goldmoon Group – a conglomeration of […]

BFI London Film Festival 2013: The movies I got tickets for

By Cognitive Space on 08/10/2013

Time to roll out that red carpet – The BFI London Film Festival is back in town, and there is a great selection of over 200 films from 57 different countries. Running from the 9th – 21st October at various London locations tickets are selling out fast. Here are the movies I got tickets for. The […]