Alice Gage
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For over a decade the civil war in Sierra Leone waged, decimating innocent lives in the most horrific ways humans could design. Children were forced into recruitment. Hundreds of thousands were slain. The atrocities endured by civilians became notorious for their crude violence, with amputation being the most common form of torture. From this nightmare emerged thousands of refugees seeking shelter in the neighbouring nation of Guinea, where they were placed in camps and, although being displaced from their families and living in fairly simple conditions, found shared peace within …
The Pundit 2006 Reviews »
It’s easy to groan at the thought of watching a Pixies documentary, but this doco surpasses the clich‚àöÔøΩs and ends up being a depiction of four great characters in a pretty weird situation.
In the opening scenes of loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies it becomes evident that each four members of the band has experienced a variation on the theme of drug and alcohol abuse, weight gain, minimal success in other musical projects and declining biannual royalty cheques in the years following their 1994 break up. It is thus laid …
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