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Profoundly depressed by a new poll which supposedly “reveals” the nation’s taste in rock riffs, Joel McIver – who is such a guitar geek that he wrote a book last year called The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists – provides 20 far more interesting alternatives

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Rare Hunks: Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort At 40

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Lost Highway: Jack Nance Remembered By David Lynch & Others

In a piece originally written to mark the 15th anniversary of Jack Nance's death, Cyrus Shahrad looks back over the actor's life and work and talks to those close to him, including Catherine Coulson and David Lynch

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Yasmeen Khan on director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest addition to the horror genre, the excellent Creepy

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Simon Jablonski’s Latest Independent Film Reviews

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Simon Jablonski On The Best Of The Cannes Film Festival

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The Future Is In Your Hands, Mr Travis: 45 Years Of O Lucky Man!

Ahead of its screening at Brighton's Cine City Festival, writer and actor Graham Duff looks back over 45 years of Lindsay Anderson's brilliant O Lucky Man!

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The Most Powerful Man In America: The Godfather At 50

The worlds of the Mafia and American politics are inseparable – and Francis Ford Coppola knew this when making The Godfather 50 years ago, with crime poisoning every echelon of society, finds Sam Moore

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The Quietus test drives the latest 3D filmic experience - Real D and reviews _Scar 3D_ the lamentable torture-porn flick attached to it. Andrew Stimpson wonders how long we'll have to wait until someone puts 3D to good use?

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Joel and Ethan Coen's magical realist take on Homer's Odyssey explores the evils and quirks of Southern myths – but 20 years on, its failures and triumphs deserve a closer look, finds Madeleine Seidel

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Thor-mula One: Rush Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan waves the chequered flag on the new motor racing biopic from Ron Howard

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You Can Be Anything: On Oscar Micheaux, History’s Most Prolific African American Filmmaker

Controversial yet mainstream, Oscar Micheaux is the often forgotten African-American filmmaker who paved the way for Steve McQueen, Spike Lee and Childish Gambino. Soma Ghosh guides us through Micheaux's history

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The Broken Nest: Satyajit Ray’s Charulata reassessed

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Reviews 1

Quirks Of Humanity & Failing At Metal: A Columnus Metallicus For Summer

Articles 2

Organic Intelligence XXVI: Dungeon Synth

The Greatest Guitar Riffs In The World (Better Than Sweet Child O’Mine)

News 1

World’s Shortest Album Due On RSD

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