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Iraq0:00/179.9466671× I knew a film made in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussain was not going to be fun. I expected that. So when Son of Babylon started off warmly as a quasi-road movie in which a quiet, elderly Kurdish woman (Um-Ibrahim) from the north
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Portugal0:00/269.8881× My tolerance for art house horror is probably different to that of most people. It’s not that I’m a pretentious pseudo-intellectual who relishes obscure cinema (although I freely admit that I probably am), it’s that I like to view films as their own
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Batch 60:00/292.0746671× Quite a frustrating search this time, because Copilot didn't seem to want to suggest anything useful. I kept throwing countries at it for it to check to see what's available only to get bizarre replies along the lines of "x,
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Malta0:00/256.4906671× There are two kinds of boat films. There are the kind in which the ship that people find themselves on is actively trying to kill them (either because there’s a lunatic on board – Dead Calm – or because the vessel itself is the lunatic – Death Ship)
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Chad0:00/280.5546671× In case I’ve not already made it clear, I should explain what I’m looking for in a film. I want to be entertained, yes, but I also want to be treated as an intelligent adult: I don’t want to be given easy answers
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Algeria0:00/164.0746671× It was always going to happen eventually: I was going to see a film I didn’t like. I’d half-expected it to be the first film I watched (irony is like that) but was surprised by my raunchy thriller from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Final 1950:00/284.5653331× Because I am doing this in a variety of ways (sometimes I shop from work on my phone, other times I’m on a PC, others again I’m on a tablet) I am constantly double-checking to make sure I’m not making a terrible
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Afghanistan0:00/192.321× Sometimes, it’s hard to like a film. David Cronenberg’s Crash, for instance, is a masterpiece, but it’s a cold, brutal film. I admire it, but it’s also the very antithesis of “fun”. A film doesn’t need to be fun to be
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Palestine0:00/156.3093331× It’s very hard to watch a film which is blatant propaganda and maintain a consistent response. I’ve tried throughout this journey to view all of the films on their own merits, while still being mindful of local differences. It’s as objective as I
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Pakistan0:00/195.9893331× Proudly billed as Pakistan’s first splatter pic, Hell’s Ground is…ambitious. It opens with a brutal murder (the sort that suggests it’s there only because nothing else horrific is going to happen for a substantial amount of time – or half an hour in
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Senegal0:00/203.4986671× Senegal’s The Pirogue (2012) was billed as a drama, so I was rather unprepared for what turned out to be a harrowing survival movie. The plot itself could be from any current newspaper headline: a group of illegal immigrants attempt a secretive sea crossing (in
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Switzerland0:00/236.5226671× I said a few posts back that I was going to focus on horror because I believe that horror will be the genre with greatest ease of access. I stand by that. This started out as a desire simply to see if it was possible to