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Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

Simon casts his expert eye over Patagonia and The Insatiable Moon for this week's column

Exposing Wall Street Corruption: Client 9 and Inside Job Reviewed

Alex Gibney and Charles Ferguson were the strongest directors to come out of the 2000 boom in left-leaning docs, and their films _Client 9_ and the now Oscar winning _Inside Job_ are out in the UK this week. David Moats gives his verdict

Berlinale 2011: The Best of the Fest

Stephen Dalton finds much to love at this years Berlin International Film Festival including: new docs on Genesis P-Orridge and Black Power; Shakespeare-revivals and true-tales from the Iraq War and new works by Wim Wenders and Richard Ayoade.

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

Today, Simon Jablonski delivers his expert opinion on Confessions andMy Kidnapper

The Coen Bros’ True Grit: Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld Interviewed

Daniel A Nixon sits down with Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld as they discuss father figures, eye-patches, and why Bridges' surly US Marshall is neither a John Wayne nor a Clint Eastwood prototype

Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed

While this much anticipated adaptation may lack the subtlety of of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Toby Manning thinks _Never Let Me Go_ more than makes up for it with its meticulously crafted setting and strong performances

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week, our man Simon gives his verdict on The Fighter, Nénette and Rabbit Hole

The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie

Sob Story: Biutiful And The Cinema Of Despair

While Biutiful is in many ways _Amores Perros_ and _Babel_ director Alejandro González Iñárritu's return to form, Toby Manning wonders if its unflinching realism is really the antidote to cynical Hollywood fantasies

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week Simon Jablonski reviews John Carpenter's The Ward, as well as The Portuguese Nun and NEDS

Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed

Simon Jablonski kicks off 2011 with a round-up of this week's independent releases

Fishing for the Truth: Social Networking Doc Catfish Reviewed

The latest in a glut of films which blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction, _Catfish_ chronicles a social networking encounter too strange to be believed. Daniel Nixon thinks the film, out on DVD this week, perfectly captures the illusory nature of online relationships and all of their pitfalls, even if it stands on morally shaky ground.

Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours Reviewed

Danny Boyle is adept at making spectacle out of human misery, but Eftihia Stefanidi thinks his bag of cinematic tricks might overwhelm this minimal tale of a trapped climber.

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week Simon reviews _The War You Don't See_, _Cuckoo_ and _Loose Cannons_

Hold Onto Your Lunch: Industrialised Food In Our Daily Bread

See this visually stunning documentary on the big screen this Sunday 19th of December with live musical accompaniment from Pevin Kinel. Buy tickets here

LIKE: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Discuss Their Social Network Soundtrack

How a film about social networking and geeks at war revitalised the creativity of one of post-industrial's finest pairings

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week Simon reviews _On Tour_, _In Our Name_ and _Somewhere_

Wake-Up Call: Sofia Coppola’s Hotel Drama Somewhere

Hotels have provided many a good cinematic backdrop, such as in Sofia Coppola's breakthrough _Lost In Translation_. However, Toby Manning wonders if the director's latest protagonist hasn't overstayed his welcome

Simon Jablonski’s Latest Independent Film Reviews

This time, Simon casts his eyes over exploration of religious duty Of Gods And Men, sex and socialising in the age of communication with Easier With Practice, and The Be All And End All... which, he says, very much isn't

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week Simon reviews An Ordinary Execution, Leap Year, and the Road To Las Vegas

Shogun Assassin, GZA’s Liquid Swords & The Sound Of Militant Dysphoria

Robert Barry examines this classic of Japanese cinema in relationship to the music of GZA and the Wu-Tang Clan

50 Years On: Peeping Tom Revisited

The very regal Josh Saco takes an uncomfortably close look at Michael Powell's Peeping Tom

Indie Film Roundup: Uncle Boonmee, Adrift, Robinson in Ruins Reviewed

Simon Jablonski discovers the best left-field films of the week, discussing the fickleness of love, meandering time-travels and those ever curious Thai monkey-boys.

Waiting For The World To Catch Up: The Monks’ Transatlantic Feedback Reviewed

Better late than never: the 60s may not have taken to The Monks, but with the release of _The Transatlantic Feedback_, Niall O'Keeffe is pleased they're finally getting the audience they deserve

Looking Through The Lens: Anton Corbijn Discusses The American

Daniel A Nixon talks to Anton Corbijn about his new film _The American_, and wonders how his aptitude for capturing the perfect still has influenced his cinematic career

Indie Film Roundup: Aftershock, Brilliantlove, and We Are What We Are

From kitchen sink vampires to harrowing _Sophie’s Choice_-esque dilemmas to the sticky frustration of young love, Simon Jablonski picks through the best independent films of the week.

The International Rome Film Festival Blog Part 2

Scroll down for Terry Daley's second report from Rome's premiere film festival in which he takes in _Bhutto_ and _We Want Sex_

What’s All The Fuss About? Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary Reviewed

_Involuntary_ may be disjointed, says Eftihia Stefanidi, but it will haunt you long after it's finished

“A Godzilla Version Of Being A Woman”: All About Evil With Peaches Christ

Simon Jablonski talks to director, writer, actress and drag-queen Peaches Christ about horror, homage, Julia Roberts and Freddy Krueger

The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed

The film dream team of David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin (and Trent Reznor!?) expose the very messy origins of facebook. Val Siebert thinks there's much to 'like' in this critical and well crafted drama.

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

The “Chessence” Of Chilly Gonzales’ Ivory Tower

With cameos from Peaches and Feist, Chilly Gonzale's first foray into filmmaking is an inspired surrealist tale of two chess-playing brothers. The Quietus' resident chess expert, Mr. Seacrudge explains how the film missed a few "moves" and fills us in on real life "Jazz Chess"