The Year So Far
A Behemoth Playlist
Film Features
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Film Features
Reel Sounds – Vol. 4: St. Vincent, Damien Dempsey And More At Doc’N Roll 2021
Two films that build on recent music documentaries that have set or pushed the bar in the way t...
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Elegant And Brutal: Todd Haynes On The Myth Of The Velvet Underground
First there is nothing. Then a drone against a black screen. The increasingly deranged squall v...
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Rare Hunks: Walter Hill's Southern Comfort At 40
Walter Hill never made topical films - at least not deliberately. Instead, the action stylist, ...
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Hired Tunes: Anatomy Of A James Bond Song
Songs. Bond songs. Spanning half a century and 25 tracks (plus plenty more that didn’t make the...
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High Tech, Old English: Beowulf And The Green Knight
Ah, the seventh century. A simpler time. A time when men were free to dismember one another wit...
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You Silly Goose: The Courier And Our Tired, Boring British Period Films
There is a famous stretch of British history which runs from May 1940 and the ascension of Wins...
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Femininity And Fandom: Spirited Away At 20
It takes 12 minutes for Chihiro’s parents to turn into pigs. By the half hour mark, she’s evade...
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Inspiration And Implementation: Olivier Assayas On His Key Films
For 35 years now, the sometimes-controversial French film director Olivier Assayas has been thr...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
"Magnificent, Fascinating & Appalling": The Birth Of A Nation Revisited
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Ghibli's Are Good: Grave Of The Fireflies And Kiki's Delivery Service Reviewed
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Bread, Circuses & Brazilian Protest: Tropicalia Reviewed
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Repetition And Retreat: The Naked Island Reviewed
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Yawn Of The Dead: World War Z Reviewed
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For Yod's Sake: The Source Family Reviewed
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Is It A Turd? Man Of Steel Reviewed
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Plastic Surgery Disasters: Behind The Candelabra Reviewed
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