Reviews by Dionysian Child

Whilst running the risk of becoming wildly unpopular with most of my male counterparts, and more recently some female ones. I feel it necessary to state a warning about this game.

If you enjoy spending time in the sunshine, if there is anyone you hold dear to you in your life or relish seeing then don’t begin to play this.
To me it appears as a reel of unfathomable lists, of ever changing unknown players and statistics but there is clearly much more hidden within it.
The only part that I can claim to enjoy is the status remark based on how many hours played; with ironic lines like; ‘Football manager should be added to your C.V.’ and ‘Remember to call work for more sick leave.’

Sigh, where did all those hours go.

The influences and styles of music on this album are so beautifully varied and put together in suck a way, that it makes me feel like I’ve been able to sneak into his head for a few moments and listen as he collects his thoughts.
You can hear his sense of joy as Buckley plays around with new styles and concepts and experiments with his musical range.
The album is filled with the recognisable heart wrenching soulful lyrics and melodies associated with Buckley, but there is a real sense of his playfulness, listening to Buckley push out into Jazz, Rock and other musical genres as well as developing the subject matter and lyrical content on which he works.

The songs are raw and in their unfinished state as he left them with his voice perfectly portraying the whole range of human emotion. This feeling the unfinished and ‘work in progress’ for me really adds to their emotion and potency. A great album to sit back and contemplate with.

This film is beautifully slow paced and encapsulating. A startling film that deals with issues deeply embedded within all of our lives; love, trust, and the search for truth. Exploring the point to which we are prepared to stick to our integrity and follow our convictions, whilst also tackling enormous political and economical issues of illegal drug production and trials on the poor of Kenya.
A young politically charged student (Weisz) who marries her tutor and British Diplomat. (Fiennes) They migrate to Africa where his career diplomacy allow Weisz to channel her findings (despite obvious opposition and resistance) along political avenues, the results of which her husband must pick up and piece together, whilst battling through personal and political levels of deceit and betrayal.
Despite sounding like another political ‘anti west’ film, Fernando Meirelles’ deals mainly with the value and cost of human life and the dedication to humanities plight on a personal basis, which is what makes it so appealing and affective.
There aren’t many films within this genre that allow me to empathize with the character and genuinely believe and share in their zeal and willingness of self sacrifice for a greater good, and ultimately love, but this stunning film is most defiantly one, a modern masterpiece.