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East End Film Festival Review: Dermaphoria

By Cognitive Space on 04/09/2014

It was Jason Silva who said in his Shots of Awe series that cinema is a “storyland where we loose ourselves and find ourselves and its films like Dermaphoria that are examples of this “dream sharing technology”. I didn’t know anything about the movie or its director before watching and sometimes it’s the best way […]

London Korean Festival Film 2013: Hide and Seek (Sum-bakk-og-jil) Review

By Cognitive Space on 29/11/2013

Hide and Seek the Korean box office surprise hit opened this year’s London Korean Film Festival. Made on a shoestring budget and containing no major starts and is the directorial debut of Huh Jung. This film stormed the Korean box during the summer and for good reason Synopsis The film tells the story of Sung-soo […]

London Film Festival 2013: Northwest (Nordvest) Review

By Cognitive Space on 22/11/2013

Many crime stories tell a similar story of the characters rise (and in many times fall) of power. Some are told to such epic proportions that the story becomes far removed from everyday life. Occasionally a movie comes along with that same entertainment value of this epic crime stories but tells a very simple and […]

London Film Festival 2013: Rigor Mortis Review

By Cognitive Space on 22/11/2013

Rigor Mortis plays homage to the classic Hong Kong kung fu horror movies of the 80’s of which I’m a fan of. Hopping vampires known as Jiangshi and plenty of kung fu these films had them all. My first exposure to these were the Samo Hung classic Encounters of the Spooky and Lam Ching Ying […]