LFF REVIEW: “Not the beautiful and mysterious creature it wants to be” – Little Joe (2019)

“Bold ideas with boring execution.” The mint-green lab coats donned by the botanists in Little Joe immediately create a sense of unease. This ever so slight change in the universally recognisable and authoritative white lab coat gives the impression that this lab-experiment-gone-wrong story will be somewhat different from its genre kin. But you would be…

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The Fall of Man and How That’s Kinda OK: The Eco-Apocalypse in Film

I love a good apocalypse movie. Be it a mystery virus, global warming, or some enigmatic invader, films where we’re forced to confront our demise have always fascinated me. Everyone is always running around, panicking, trying desperately to prevent what is of course one day inevitable – the end of man. The one thing that…

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