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March DVD/VOD Review Round-up
2 Mar 2015
Including Broadchurch, Wolf Hall, The Imitation Game, '71, Horns, Nightcrawler and more
The second series of Broadchurch (Acorn) ●● has already been much discussed but unfortunately we concur: it's a mess. The courtroom drama veers all over the place while everyone involved in the old Sandbrook case suddenly seems to remember vital clues…
Watch Edward Snowden documentary CitizenFour online for free
2 Mar 2015
Filmmaker Laura Poitras makes Academy Award-winning doc available to stream for free
This year's Best Documentary Oscar went to the critically-acclaimed CitizenFour, which captures one of the most important news stories of our time by one of the people who was there as it happened. It was through filmmaker Laura Poitras that US…
Dreamcatcher
2 Mar 2015
Kim Longinotto's documentary shines a light on a truly wonderful woman
Forget all those lycra-clad crime-fighters who constantly jostle for position at the box office, Dreamcatcher is a documentary about a bona fide superhero. By day, Brenda Myers-Powell works with prostitutes in prison and disadvantaged young girls in…
Difret
2 Mar 2015
Moving Ethiopian drama focusing on the fight for a young girl's freedom
There are a lot of good films being made in Africa and we rarely get to see any of them outside of festivals, so Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari’s eye-opening social justice drama, based on a groundbreaking true story, deserves an…
Appropriate Behaviour
2 Mar 2015
Hilarious, accomplished and idiosyncratic debut from Desiree Akhavan
Appropriate Behaviour is a beautifully observed breakup comedy told from the perspective of a Persian-American bisexual woman, living in Brooklyn, who is afraid to come out to her parents. Desiree Akhavan (recently seen in Lena Dunham’s Girls…