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Eddie Peake and his Naked Art
British artist Eddie Peake who currently has a solo exhibition of work called ‘The Forever Loop’ which is on view at The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, has just presented a “reimagining of sorts” of one of his performance pieces from his days studying at the Royal Academy. Whilst a post-graduate student Peake staged a naked five-a-side football…
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Sergio Tovar Velarde talks Cuatro Lunas … and love and life ….
Last summer we got to preview a movie that was so wonderfully refreshing that it blew our socks off and we felt the need to share the news even before it was released. 31-year-old Mexican writer /director Sergio Tovar Velarde’s remarkable film Cuatro Lunas aka Four Moons chronicled four stories about love, heartbreak and self-acceptance. What…
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Every Thing Will Be Fine
Minutes into this movie when Tomas (James Franco) is driving home through a snowstorm in the middle of some isolated countryside and is involved in a fatal accident, you have this sinking feeling that despite the title, actually nothing will be fine. Despite everyone assuring him that the accident was unavoidable and that he was…
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Legend
To Brits of a certain age, particularly Londoners, despite their acts of unspeakable violence the Kray Brothers have always been considered with great affection as part of the folklore of the East End in the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Their exploits filled the tabloid newspapers at the time, as despite their thinly veiled gangster activities…
