The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.

Letterboxd review:
★★★½ Watched by Aaron King 18 Oct 2014

Two men on an epic quest have endured some of the worst things possible that can be done to them. One guy gets a spear through his cheek, another gets stabbed in both of his legs by a spear which causes him to walk with crutches for awhile. Then one gets a beetle in his ear and has to have wax heated up and poured in it, then it looked like he stabbed the beetle in his ear. One has to have some of his leg cut off due to walking too much. One got attacked by a lion and almost gotten eaten. People have never lived until they have done an experience like this. These two men have endured a very rough friendship together to find what they are looking for.

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After hastening the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man’s young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor.

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A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.

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SILENT SCREAM is a biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters . However not content with making a standard prison film the director David Hayman throws a massive spanner in the works by making the movie an art house picture with fractured time lines. We know that Winters served in the army , that he murdered a bar man in cold blood and that he`s serving a life sentence but that`s all we really find out as the story keeps jumping around to different times and places . There`s a vague notion that if you treat dangerous criminals with dignity they can be rehabilitated but this point isn`t really hammered home , and unless you`re aware of Scottish culture like the sectarian divide in the West of Scotland you`ll find much of the film confusing . It`s also a rather bleak film not helped by its obvious lack of budget and I can only recommend it if you`re interested in seeing Brit film star Robert Carlyle and well known TV star Julie Graham in cameo roles.

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Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1991 film, set in Warsaw in 1939, stars Crispin Glover as well as Iain Glen who as a 30-year-old suddenly starts being treated by those around him–his former professor, a nymphet, a female cousin–as if he had regressed back to childhood. Closer to a curiosity than to a success–the English dialogue and the period Polish setting make for an odd mesh at times–but a curiosity by Skolimowski certainly isn’t like anyone else’s.

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An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the missing link between man and ape.

1870. Dr. Jamie Dodd is elated. He has finally succeeded in capturing not one, but two pygmies. He brings them to Scotland with the help of Elena Van Den Ende, an adventurous woman who sells wild animals to the zoos of Europe. He and his two anthropologist friends, Alexander Auchinleck and Fraser McBride, are certain they have discovered the missing link, which will make them famous. They start examining the pygmy couple from every angle and Jamie gradually discovers that Toko and Likola are just as sensitive and intelligent as any other homo sapiens. His two colleagues strongly reject this idea, as it is glory they are after, not the truth. Will Jamie be able to prove the two short people are genuine human beings and not freaks to be shown in a zoo?
Written by Guy Bellinger

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Based on Patrick Galvin’s memoir, ‘Song for a Raggy Boy’ is set in the grey, grim surroundings of a brutal Irish reform school in 1939. While the storyline has unmistakable parallels with ‘The Magdalene Sisters’, it deserves more than to be dismissed as this year’s indictment of religious orders.

As the film opens, William Franklin (Quinn) has just been appointed as the only lay teacher at St Jude’s. This central character’s outsider status lets the audience see the enclosed world of the reformatory school through his eyes – and it’s not a pretty sight. The Christian Brothers, particularly the prefect in charge of discipline, Brother John (Glen), use verbal and physical abuse to control and terrorise the children, dehumanising them further by refusing to use their names and calling them by their identification numbers.

Franklin, who fought against Franco’s fascists in the Spanish Civil War, is opposed to the blind violence meted out to the boys. In his classes he tries to instil a love of poetry and learning in his students, but soon makes an enemy of Brother John when he interferes in a beating that he is giving new pupil Patrick Delaney (Newman). A defeated man when he arrives at St Jude’s, haunted by memories of his fellow communists and the wife he lost in Spain, Franklin gradually awakens to the boys’ plight and battles against Brother John to save these already damaged children from more harm.

Although the cast of boys was drawn more from boxing clubs than drama schools, their performances are remarkable, in particular Chris Newman and John Travers who plays the tragic Liam Mercier. Brooding widower William Franklin is a step up for Aidan Quinn from his last Irish role in the mawkish ‘Evelyn’ and Ian Glen’s portrayal of the heartless disciplinarian is chilling.

Director Aisling Walsh does not shy away from portraying the physicality of violence – there are moments of sheer brutality and a particularly harrowing scene of sexual abuse at the hands of one of the Brothers – but a happy ending, lifted straight from ‘Dead Poets Society’, is unworthy of what’s gone before.

It’s a tough film to watch but ‘Song for a Raggy Boy’ is a timely and important reminder of the tortures that thousands of Irish children suffered in similar institutions, pointing the finger not only at the perpetrators of violence but at those who facilitated it by their silence

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