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★★★★★ Forthright director John Pilger's previous incendiary documentary, 2010's The War You Don't See, was a brilliant and eye-opening examination of the media's handling of conflict as well as its dubious relationship with various warmongering governments. Grand in both scale and ambition, Pilger's one-man assault on injustice and military expansion spanned the globe. His latest film, Utopia (2013), is a far smaller, much more personal project focusing on the country of his birth, Australia. Here, Pilger explores the history and continued maltreatment of its indigenous population, even borrowing its ironic title from the name of a poverty-stricken settlement in the Northern Territories.

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Jameson Cult Film Club, Liverpool & Sheffield

Twenty years before he had the budget to film men shooting each other on horses, Quentin Tarantino had to resort to filming men shooting each other in warehouses. But while Django Unchained has been praised as a bracing return to form, these special "immersive" screenings celebrate the movie that established Tarantino's form in the first place: Reservoir Dogs. By "immersive", they mean screening the movie in a warehouse setting, decked out like an extension of the movie, with characters (watch out for the psychotic Mr Blonde), themed catering and even recreations of the movie's more memorable moments (bring spare ears). It's all free as well, though you'll have to register quickly.

Camp & Furnace, Liverpool, Wed; Gibb Street Warehouse, Birmingham, Thu

Between The Lines, London

This promises to be a ground-breaking festival...

A New film looking at the global war on drugs, and specifically the story of cocaine, will host its public UK premiere tonight - Wednesday, May 16 - at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

Cocaine Unwrapped is "the untold story of the human suffering and cost caused by the cocaine trade and the war against it." The trailer is included below.

The hard-hitting documentary is directed by Rachel Seifert (Who Am I? The Found Children of Argentina) and executive produced by Christopher Hird (The End of the Line, The War You Don't See, Black Gold).

Cocaine Unwrapped promises to bring unprecedented access to the political leaders of Latin America.

As Western demand for cocaine reaches record levels, so does the violence at every stage of the global trade in the drug.

The film explores the international network of violence, imprisonment, poverty and addiction caused in its wake.

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John Pilger's The War You Don't See is a documentary about the ways in which modern media has become compromised. Critics of wars have been accused of being unpatriotic; footage of atrocities in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine is quietly buried; and while the public is free to discover the truth for themselves thanks to the internet, the mainstream media's one-sided coverage has the effect of increasingly leaving viewers desensitised. After all, the faces of victims of ‘collateral damage' are rarely seen on the news and statistics are a poor substitute. Instead, news reports are delivered from embedded journalists and as Pilger explains, this means that the whole story is rarely heard.