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London Film Festival 2013 Review: Why Don’t You Play in Hell (Jigoku de naze warui)

By Cognitive Space on 22/11/2013

Why Don’t You Play in Hell is a ludicrously funny and bloody movie. It caused the largest roar of clapping and cheer in the cinema. I haven’t seen a reaction like that at the end of a film for some time Sion Sono has always been known for his envelope pushing movies from the controversial […]

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 […]