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It’s Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom’s Butterfly Kiss

Michael Winterbottom's first film, remastered and released on DVD this week, makes an exquisite corpse out of clichés and comparisons.

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The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70

Stewart’s darkest picture so far showed the actor angrier and more tortured than ever before, finds Sean McGeady

O Brothers Were Art Thou? The Wolfpack Reviewed

Fred Wagner reviews the documentary on the Hollywood reared siblings discovered by film maker Crystal Moselle

The Bong Identity: American Ultra Reviewed

James Ubaghs reviews the Jesse Eisenberg starring stoner espionage thriller, American Ultra

Harder, Better, Faster, Fonda: Philippa Snow On Klute

Philippa Snow unravels the strands of Alan J. Pakula's 1971 classic and finds a film with a lot to say about our notions of authenticity and belonging

High Noon At 70: Polish Posters, Gary Cooper And The Collapse Of Communism

Following strike action in Gdańsk in 1980, workers formed the trade union Solidarność, and a campaign poster using High Noon from 1952 changed everything, finds Sean McGeady

Tug Of Yore: Things Learned At Helsinki’s Viva Erotica Festival

Saskia Vogel reports back from Helsinki's first ever 'Splendid Movie Orgy'. Photo by Saskia Vogel (NSFW)

Feminist Porn And The Impossible Subject

Hannah Gregory analyses the wealth of ideas and issues in two recent Zero Books publications, on sex, porn and the nature of femininity

Raging Monster Movie Party: Akira 30 Years On

Akira was the film that brought Japanese pop culture to the world. Thirty years later, David Bennun wonders just what it was trying to tell us about Japan

Faulty Towers: The Grand Budapest Hotel Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan books a suite at the Grand Budapest Hotel, but is Wes Anderson's latest a room with a view in scenic Venice or a Travelodge in bleakest Nuneaton?

Och Aye The Noo Wave: Big Gold Dream – Scottish Punk 1977-82

Neil Cooper goes behind the scenes of a new documentary exploring Edinburgh's place in the post-punk ferment. Photos from the Fire Engines Archives