The Year So Far
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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
The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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