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FILM REVIEW: Bad Lieutenant

Review by Barnaby Walter After failing at the US box office, Werner Herzog’s retelling of Abel Ferrera’s 1992 film Bad Lieutenant is not an easy sell. It contains graphic depictions of drug abuse, ugly scenes of cruelty and torture and ambiguous, but still distressing, scenes of potential sexual assault. It also has a script that’s [...]

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FILM REVIEW: Treeless Mountain

Review by Barnaby Walter So Yong Kim delivers an affecting and memorable follow-up directorial effort to her 2006 feature In Between Days with this simple but interesting little picture. It’s a sad tale of two young children whose mother leaves them to find their missing father. Their drunken aunt has to look after them – [...]

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FILM REVIEW: Four Lions

Review by Barnaby Walter The controversial Chris Morris, responsible for TV series such as Brass Eye and The Day Today, turns his wicked satirical mind to the subject of Muslim suicide bombers in this hilarious but quietly menacing directorial debut. Instead of portraying the terrorists as terrifying monsters, however, Morris presents them as a group [...]

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FILM REVIEW: The Lost Song

Review by Barnaby Walter This debut feature from Holby City director Julie Ann Robinson is both undeniably predictable and extremely enjoyable. Miley Cyrus, usually all-teeth no-talent, gives a surprisingly affecting performance of rebellious teen Ronnie who has been sent to spend the summer with her dad (Greg Kenner) by the beach. She was once a [...]

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Resident Evil Archives

by Jonny Margalit. Resident Evil Archives is a brilliant FPS game with very good graphics. At the beginning of the game it gives you an option of two characters, either Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine. If you are playing it the first time it is good to play as Jill Valentine because your comrade Barry [...]

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Josh Dubovie Returns To The Billericay School

Josh Dubovie Returns To The Billericay School from BillericaySchool on Vimeo.

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Unneeded exam stress

By A Morgan Many of you today are probably freaking out over the up and coming exams, GCSE and A levels too and don’t worry because I can guarantee you are not alone! Don’t worry though – its totally normal BUT its time to get your heads down and do some serious revision NOW! I [...]

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The need for electoral reform

by Rob Smith As shown in the 2010 election, the first past the post system we currently have is shocking as figures show, Conservatives have around 10,000,000 votes whilst Labour have about 8,000,000 and Liberal Democrats have about 6,500,000. Conservatives have 294 seats (as of 12pm Friday the 7th of May) Labour 252 and Liberals [...]

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There is no pleasing the English, the last time they got the ashes they were over the moon!

by Matt Hayter With Britain looking back on the ordeal and laughing about it.…..many British citizens have questioned the extend to which the Civil Aviation Authority went to in order to ensure the safety of flights over Europe. The Ash cloud left many thousands of British citizens stranded abroad asking ‘Why has my flight been [...]

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Green Party Says: GO!

by Alex Escott The 2010 general election promised a refreshing sense of uncertainty and suspense and by no means failed to deliver, despite the Conservatives promising a ‘vote for change’ and Labour inferring that ‘Britain deserves better’ a change for the better came in the form of a different colour. In the early hours of [...]

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