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Film Features
The Missionary Imposition: Godland Reviewed
In Hlynur Pálmason’s visually rich, religiously potent Godland, the landscapes of Iceland are n...
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An Act Of Self-Defence: How To Blow Up A Pipeline Interview
“This is an act of self-defence,” says one of How To Blow Up A Pipeline's rag tag group of char...
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Stormy Weather And Cabin In The Sky: Pioneering Black Musicals At 80
“Celebrating the magnificent contribution of the colored race to the entertainment of the world...
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The Last Of Us: Post-War Anxiety In The Birds At 60
The birds are coming. Alfred Hitchcock’s third adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier story pivots f...
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Donkey Power: The History Of Cinema's Favourite Sidekick
The day before the 2023 Academy Award nominees were announced, Horse and Hound magazine ran a s...
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Hide And Seek: Pakistan's Remarkable Joyland
As Joyland begins, children chant a sing-song countdown as a close-up of a figure covered in a ...
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A Man's Job: Asif Kapadia And Akram Khan On Creature
Asif Kapadia, red-eyed and coiled with energy, is springing off to play five-a-side football. W...
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Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40
In Videodrome, technology professor Brian O'Blivion, famously based on media academic Marshall ...
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Film Reviews
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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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