The Year So Far
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Film Features
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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 Damned United & A Handful Of Non-Shit Sports Films
Click here to see our gallery of Sports Films That Weren't Shit. For all the praise heaped upo...
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Anyone For Charlie? Bronson Reviewed
In only a few years on the scene, Vertigo Films has carved out quite a nice little niche for th...
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Watchmen Reviewed: Has Zack Snyder Killed The Comic Book Adaptation?
You probably know that Watchmen is a movie based on this totally awesome comic book that Alan M...
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Gran Torino And The Death Of The American Hero
Click here for our gallery of cinematic swan songs Legend has it that Laurence Olivier once to...
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F**K Reviewed & A Profanisaurus Of Cinema's Best Swearing
Click here for the Quietus Cinema Profanisaurus gallery In Britain, the half-time show at the 2...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Bizarre Love Triangles on Film
See our gallery of Bizarre Love Triangles I'm always wary of films tagged with phrases like "c...
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Who Killed Nancy? New Sex Pistols Doc Reviewed
In a world supposedly transfixed by celebrity, now is maybe as good a time as any to exhume the...
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The Laughing Noam - Manufacturing Consent Revisited
Coincidentally, the night before watching this extensively expanded reissue of the 1992 documen...
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