There were a lot of good films at this this year’s BFI Film Festival; too many to count. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, the upcoming dark comedy from screenwriter and director Martin McDonagh, just so happens to be one of my highlights. The premise centres around, funnily enough, three billboards in a small Missouri town […]
Far Cry 2 and narrative harmony
Twenty hours into my time with Far Cry 2 I had shot, hacked and burnt enough men to fill ten graveyards. I set about scouring the remnants of a freshly waged battlefield with mechanised efficiency, stripping and looting the bullet ridden, charred airstrip of any supplies. The silence was punctuated by agonised screams: a survivor, […]
Art is political and its destruction is always a crime
Destruction and defacement of art is probably nearly as old as art itself, and ISIS’ actions towards cultural heritage sites in Syria, Libya and Iraq – semi-organized bulldozing, demolishing and looting shrines, mosques and archaeological sites – is hardly without precedent. Crimes against art range from everything including the Mongols’ senseless destruction of Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, to Nazi […]