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4 Years Ahead Of His Time: Stewart Lee & Michael Cumming On The Nightingales

Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming are making a film about Robert Lloyd and the Nightingales. Neil Fox caught up with them at this year's Sea Change Festival to see how they're getting along

Short Fiction: ‘Smart People Talk About Sex’ By Lauren Oyler

New writing this week comes in the form of short fiction from writer, editor and newly-appointed chief of the Bookslut, Lauren Oyler

Islands In The Dream: The Art Museums Of Teshima & Naoshima

In the middle of Japan's inland sea, a small group of islands offer up unique experiences of works by James Turrell, Walter De Maria, Yayoi Kusama, and others

Shock Treatment: Piercing Director Nicolas Pesce’s Favourite Gialli

From its lurid aesthetics to its pulsing soundtrack, director Nicolas Pesce's second feature, Piercing, is a homage to the great Italian horror movies of the 1970s. Here he takes us through ten of his favourites, from Dario Argento to Lucio Fulci and beyond

Old Clothes, New Europe: Phantom Thread’s Hidden Histories

In Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, David Hering detects an uneasy dialectic of Anglo-European relations beneath the film's sumptuous exterior (contains SPOILERS)

Menace And Innocence: Stoker Reviewed

Park Chan-Wook, the creator of mentalist classic Oldboy, arrives in Hollywood and sets about confounding what anybody might expect with this taut and sparkling thriller, says Ed Owen

The Quietus Looks Back at Alex Cox’s Moviedrome

_Moviedrome_ was a cult movie showcase hosted by one of Britain's best cult directors. Austin Collings remembers many a Sunday night curled up with Alex Cox, whose new book _X-films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker_ is out now.

Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film

Nuclear disarmament documentary Countdown to Zero is a timely film with an important message. But is it ever OK to exploit fear in documentaries, even to promote good causes? David Moats investigates

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Report

Val Phoenix attends the 26th LLGFF at BFI Southbank. Still from The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye

Coen In The Wind: Inside Llewyn Davis Reviewed

James Ubaghs reviews the Coen Brother's tragicomic reflection on the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 60s

Gore Movie: Best Of Enemies Reviewed

Fred Wagner reviews a new documentary about Gore Vidal and William Buckley's televised debates of the late '60s

Royal Rumble: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos plays fast and loose with the historical record in his third English language film, The Favourite, starring Olivia Colman and Emma Stone

Cruising At Altitude: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Reviewed

Tom Duggins gets stuck in to the latest in the seemingly-never-ending action franchise

Where Terror, Awe And Rapture Fuse: Dario Argento’s Suspiria

On the eve of Cigarette Burns' screening of Suspiria, Jimmy Martin explains why Dario Argento's masterpiece is the cream of occult horror

Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island Reviewed

Haunted House: 40 Years Of ‘The Changeling’

Peter Medak's seminal horror film The Changeling turns 40 this year. With the anniversary comes an occasion to reappraise the film's influential subversion of a genre, finds Mat Colegate