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Raindance Film Festival

25 September – 6 October 2013

Raindance is back again with a bumper crop of exciting new independent films.

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Latest reviews

  • 2 Jacks
    Review preview for 2 Jacks

    The film has a cheap minimalistic feel, although this adds to the theme of two men who are always trying to grasp at anything that comes their way.

    Paul Logan · 3 out of 5
    Legendary Hollywood director, Jack Hussar a notorious womaniser returns to Hollywood to raise financing for his next film.
  • The Machine
    Review preview for The Machine

    What James has tried to do is film a Hollywood Blockbuster on an independent British budget, and it shows.

    Neil Mitchell · 2 out of 5
    A cybernetics expert tries to create an android super-soldier.
  • I Play With The Phrase Each Other
    Review preview for I Play With The Phrase Each Other

    Great poets are frantically name-checked as if by way of justification when the overall effect has more in common with that of Douglas Adams' Vogons.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Four isolated residents of the urban jungle communicate through phone conversations.
  • Lion Ark
    Review preview for Lion Ark

    More than anything, it is the lions who tell the story.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When a law is passed forbidding animals to be kept by circuses in Bolivia, the animal welfare battle is just beginning.

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  • Lion man
    Tim Phillips on filming the rescue of the Lion Ark animals.

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