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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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Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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