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Stop Making Scents: Jessica Hausner On Botanical Thriller 'Little Joe'
In Little Joe, the fifth feature by Jessica Hausner, scientists try to make scents out of other...
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In The Driver's Seat: The Demented Fun Of ByNWR
Despite them both being inspiring and loving tributes to unique independent filmmakers, Tim Bur...
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Echoes Of Utopia: 40 Years Of 'Cruising'
There’s one particular scene which springs to mind when I think of William Friedkin’s Cruising....
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The Master’s Amusement Park: The Up And Down Cinema Of Bong Joon-ho
With Parasite, Bong Joon-ho has solidified his reputation as a singular master of cinema. His ...
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The Star Wars Of Horror: 30 Years Of Nightbreed
In a recent interview with horror historian Stephen Thrower, I asked what he thought had been w...
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Trouble At Sea: Maritime Superstition In The Lighthouse, Sea Fever And Harpoon
There’s a moment in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse where Ephraim Winslow violently murders a sea...
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Chest Always So Puffed Guy: American Psycho At 20
Of Mary Harron’s 2000 adaptation of 1991 Wall Street satire American Psycho, its author, Bret E...
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Lap Me Up: The Surrealism Of Sexy Beast At 20
Gal Dove is a happy man. His days as a grimy London safecracker are over. England? “It’s a dump...
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Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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