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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
Midnight Meat Train: How Clive Barker's Latest Was Almost Derailed
The mighty Clive Barker returns to the big screen with an adaptation of one of his earliest sho...
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Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading: Reviewed
Last Oscar season, we saw supremely talented filmmakers get back to basics in order to snatch s...
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Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena
Its odd to think that the sci-fi film is an English-language phenomenon. There are several nota...
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The British Invasion: How to Break Hollywood as a British Actor
There is a delicious irony in Simon Pegg playing a British maverick selling out to Americans in...
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Revenge Of The ASBO: Eden Lake Reviewed
According to The Daily Mail the kids are running riot, stabbing wildly in the dark and all too ...
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Book-Film Adaptations: Win Tickets To Hear Toby Young Speak
While Hollywood scrounges through its couch cushions searching for that elusive shiny copper of...
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Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Reviewed
This documentary feature film sees Vice magazine take another step towards throwing off the per...
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Cockney Cold War: Guy Ritchie, RocknRolla and Russian Movie Villains
At first glance, Guy Ritchie’s latest film RocknRolla seems to be concocted from the same recip...
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