WHEN UNDER: FIRE SHOOT BACK! (full review at The Reel Word)

When Under Fire, Shoot Back is a documentary following the career of the Bang Bang Club, a group of four dedicated photojournalists, renowned for their striking and uncompromising documentation of the bloody violence in post-apartheid South Africa. The group comprised of  Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva, and the film charts the heights of their prolific and acclaimed photography careers to the downward trajectory of tragedy that would befall them.
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http://www.thereelword.net/when-under-fire-shoot-back-review/

IMDB: When Under Fire: Shoot Back!

TOP TEN FUTURE PRISONS (full article at The Reel Word)

Everyone is scared of going to prison. And if there’s one thing worse than prison, it’s Future Prison. Future Prison is gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you’ve been sentenced to do time in a Future Prison, chances are you’re probably innocent. Failing that, the chances are you’ve been ‘done’ for something relatively normal by today’s standards, but strictly at odds with future society’s warped moral compass. If you’re getting sent down to Future Prison it’s mostly likely being run by an evil corporate entity or a deranged, power-crazed madman. Future Prison is probably holding a mirror up to the neo-fascist Orwellian nightmare that society has become. Future prison is bad news, and you better get yourself a good Future Lawyer, ‘cause here are the Top Ten...
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http://www.thereelword.net/top-ten-future-prisons/

KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER (full review at The Reel Word)

Kumiko The Treasure Hunter is a curious picture. By the time the credits roll, expectations are flung distant, in part due to some extremely odd decisions to position it as a comedy, and in part due to a concept that promises whimsy, but instead delivers melancholy.
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http://www.thereelword.net/kumiko-the-treasure-hunter-review/

IMDB: Kumiko The Treasure Hunter

WESTWORLD (full review at The Reel Word)

Twenty years before Michael Crichton conquered the world with a little novel about dinosaurs running amok in a futuristic theme park, he had a stab at a similar idea, writing and directing his debut feature, Westworld.
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http://www.thereelword.net/reel-classic-westworld/

IMDB: Westworld

SOYLENT GREEN (full review at The Reel Word)

Richard Fleischer’s 1973 science fiction movie, Soylent Green, is a hard-boiled detective yarn set against the backdrop of a dystopian future, ravaged by the effects of overpopulation and the greenhouse effect.

The year is 2022 and the Earth is running on empty. The soil and seas have been poisoned by industry, and population growth has strangled the planet. Set in a crammed, breadline New York City, there is so little room people sleep on stairways, and the majority of the population exist on rationed food cubes (the titular Soylent Green, as well as Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow). Opportunism is rife, and luxury is seized with both hands whenever it presents itself.  It is a world of food riots, unemployment and endless stifling heat.
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http://www.thereelword.net/reel-classic-soylent-green/

IMDB: Soylent Green

INHERENT VICE (full review at The Reel Word)

In 1970 Los Angeles, Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a perma-stoned private detective, hired to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, a wealthy, married property mogul. At the same time, Doc is hired to find a recently released ex-con and a woman’s missing, presumed dead, husband. By accident or design, these cases intersect and Doc must work to resolve them, all whilst being hassled by Detective ‘Bigfoot’ Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), and the stridently anti-hippy LAPD.
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http://www.thereelword.net/inherent-vice-review/

IMDB: Inherent Vice

THE REEL WORD

Since the beginning of the year, I have been submitting writing to some other websites and publications and in some fun news, I am going to be writing some reviews for a film website (which confusingly shares a very similar name to my own blog) The Reel Word. I'll be linking to my reviews with posts on here, and I'll still be trying to update Reel Important at least semi regularly, but it may be a little less frequent for a while.

You can visit The Reel Word at the following address:
http://www.thereelword.net/