Emilia Rolewicz

Latest Film Reviews

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  Possum (2018)

  Review preview for Possum

  The poem and whole tone of the film evokes Ted Hughes’ The Crow anthology.

  A disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to face up to his wicked stepfather.
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  The Silence Of Others (2018)

  Review preview for The Silence Of Others

  The film cuts every so often to one of the few monuments honouring the victims of Franco’s regime; faceless statues pierced with bullet holes on a deserted mountain side. The Silence Of Others puts real faces to these figures.

  The struggle against the amnesty law in Spain for those who committed atrocities under the rule of General Franco.
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  Down To Earth (2015)

  Review preview for Down To Earth

  A meaningful look at how life exists in the Amazon and small Kenyan communities, unfettered by technology.

  One family’s journey in search of the ‘keepers of the Earth’.
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  Trench 11 (2017)

  Review preview for Trench 11

  When the film focuses on the living over the undead it is at its strongest.

  In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land to stop a German experiment that could turn the tide of the war. But the Germans have already lost control...
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  Damascus Cover (2017)

  Review preview for Damascus Cover

  Daniel Zelk Berk’s feature has all the essential ingredients of a political thriller - a moody grey-blue filter, a tingling, foreboding score and people throwing back whiskies while staring drearily into space.

  A German spy must retrieve a chemical weapons expert in Syria in the wake of the fall of Berlin Wall.
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  Iceman (2017)

  Review preview for Iceman

  Iceman is not just about Kelab’s battle between himself and those who have violently wronged him, but about the external and internal wars between man, nature and nurture.

  A Neolithic hunter in the Ötztal Alps sets out to get revenge, carrying an infant with him, after the other members of his tribe are murdered.
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  Satan's Slaves (2017)

  Review preview for Satan's Slaves

  Hearing the horror before we see it creates a stretch of suspense that is always building to a terrifying reveal, and it pays off well.

  A family find themselves haunted by the living, the dead and non-human entities.
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  Two Balloons (2017)

  Review preview for Two Balloons

  This film makes it clear that lemur versus nature is the future.

  Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
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  The Lighthouse (2016)

  Review preview for The Lighthouse

  The Lighthouse may be inspired by issues caused by the isolation of Welsh workers, but it also speaks to an unhealthy yet instinctual nurturing of guilt.

  A true story of two lighthouse keepers who become physically and emotionally stranded.
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  Darkness Reigns (2017)

  Review preview for Darkness Reigns

  Cheesier elements clash with writer/director Andrew P Jones’ attempts at solemn soliloquising on hellish business deals.

  A horror film crew’s progress is destroyed by a demonic presence which spurs on a documentary maker.

Features

• For the love of lemurs

  16 Jul 2018

  Mark C Smith on taking the plunge into stop-motion animation with Two Balloons

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