Review
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
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Going Wronger0:00/499.6053331× As the orders from the first three batches started slowly to trickle in, I realised that if I was being serious about blogging this project then I needed to order more. (Lots more in the long run, obviously, but in order to have a working
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Its All Going A Bit Wrong0:00/321.0881× I have hit difficulties. Somehow, one of the AIs had branded the film Scales as being from Pakistan. It’s not. It’s from Saudi Arabia. But it did mean that I was trying to find a film from Saudi when
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What Im Doing0:00/247.6161× The last post was my review of the entertaining Viva Riva!, so this is probably a good place to pause and discuss my reviews and my style. I am not writing DVD reviews. These are not discussions about whether or not you should buy
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DRC0:00/219.4561× I know very little about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so I had no idea what to expect of a film from there. I knew it was a thriller. I knew it was the first film that had been made in the country for quite
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Batch Two0:00/579.2213331× This is the actual conversation I had with Copilot while trying to look for the next load of discs. (I have edited only to remove a lot of Copilot’s waffle.) Me: I have an extra £50 spare. Here's the full list of
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And So It Begins0:00/193.2586671× When ChatGPT first said that this project was actually possible, it helped me by listing the 30 countries that might prove the most difficult to source. Copilot (secretly employed by Big DVD) expanded the list from 193 countries (and two observer states, whatever
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Alfred Hitchcock Changed My Life0:00/233.1093331× I was born in ’75 so I’m the tail end of Gen X. Growing up in the UK in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s was very different to life today: no internet, no mobiles, no streaming, no cable TV. There were
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My Name Is Alun0:00/350.2265761× I have an absurdly large collection of shiny discs. Some of you reading this may think 100 DVDs is a lot. Some may consider 1000 too many. I have almost 10000. This is, I know, somewhat extreme. But it’s my hobby, and