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Album Review: Dark Was the Night: Red Hot Compilation – Various Artists 8/10 Most posts of Red Hot Organization’s ‘Dark Was the Night’ compilation begin with a summary dismissal of compilations in general, and particularly those in the name of charity. If such projects are as bad as people say, ‘Dark Was the Night’ – [...]

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Re-birth of a Rainbow Nation? 8/10 Based on a novel by South African playwright Athol Fugard, ‘Tsotsi‘ a slickly-produced, powerful drama set in a giant township outside Johannesburg. Presley Chweneyagae stars as the eponymous Tsotsi, a baby-faced assassin forced into surrogate fatherhood by the baby he unwittingly kidnaps during a bungled car jacking. Protecting the [...]

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Newish spin on old horror standards 6/10 The Orphanage, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona in his debut feature, is a worthy genre movie that combines elements of numerous psychological horror films from The Others and The Sixth Sense to The Shining. Notably produced by Guillermo Del Toro, who is credited with invigorating Spanish horror with [...]

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