Yakfilm – Film Reviews and Articles by David Howland

Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2012)

by yakfilm on June 12, 2013

From the producers of Gomorrah, a reenactment of the brutal police attack on a school in Genoa after the G8 summit in 2001, with added Q&A bits.

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Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)

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by yakfilm on June 6, 2013

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Is is Wrath of God or THE Wrath of God? BFI says there’s no “the” and they’re behind this re-release, so I’m with them. Read my review, then go check out the production stories, they’re well worth it.

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Sweet Vengeance (2013)

by yakfilm June 6, 2013 Film Reviews

IMDb are still calling it Sweetwater, but for UK DVD release purposes, Sweet Vengeance is a western that sees Jason Isaacs (hello) going a little bit Daniel Plainview and Ed Harris going a little bit Dennis Hopper.

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I Wish (2011)

by yakfilm May 30, 2013 Film Reviews

At no point in Hirokazu Koreeda’s wonderful I Wish, does anyone wish they were either a little bit taller, or indeed, a baller.

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Django Unchained (2012)

by yakfilm May 21, 2013 Film Reviews

You’ve (probably) already seen it, the Academy even threw a couple of Oscars its way. You’ve (probably) even decided what you thought of it and whether or not to buy it on DVD/Blu-ray, but come read my review, just because.

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