Racism

News, Reviews & Features
  • Opinion piece: Why the Academy are racist for snubbing Selma

    Movie Feature | Steve The Intern | 18th January 2015

    Guests of the Academy - overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male - took their seats at the opulent Dolby Theater in California to witness the announcement of the nominations for the 77th Oscars. When they were over, they continued chewing on their steaks and clinking their champagne glasses, oblivious to the racism hanging heavy in the air: Ava DuVernay's astonishing drama Selma, a biopic of Martin Luther King, had been snubbed - proof positive once and for all that the Academy is institutionally racist.

  • I Saw The Devil

    Movie Review | Ali | 3rd April 2011

    Unlike their most excellent cuisine, Koreans seemingly prefer their revenge served cold. I'm hardly the world's foremost expert on Asian cinema (nutshell CV: hated Ringu, loved Audition, pretended to get the references in Kill Bill) but it seems like the revenge flick is a genre that's far better catered for in the East - they gave us Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, so in return, the West gave them Faster, starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. No contest.

  • Let the trailer for I Saw The Devil punch you in the face

    Movie Trailer | Ali | 16th February 2011

    It's, like, this cool new movie? From, like, Korea? Don't worry, you probably haven't heard of it.