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Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40
In the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Ark of the Covenant is wheeled into a U.S. g...
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Are We Human? Steven Spielberg's A.I. At 20
It’s 1999, Steven Spielberg had just won his second Academy Award for Best Director. Saving Pri...
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Betrayed By Our Nature: Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth
In the early months and ancient days of 2020, Indian author Arundhati Roy wrote ‘The Pandemic I...
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Offline Objects: Terre Thaemlitz Interviewed
As a musician, digital streaming platforms and marketplaces typically don't allow for much cont...
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Gwyneth Paltrow On Food Stamps: Shiva Baby, Sex Work And Suburbia
There’s the sound of a woman crying out, climbing towards orgasm, almost definitely faked. “Yea...
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Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher's Shadow
LGBTQ+ cinema has a long history of protagonists meeting some kind of unhappy end – and so when...
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Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry And The Body in Pain
“Rot”, “torture”, “void”, “hurt”, “broken” are just some of the words etched onto this teenage ...
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Mistaken For A Man: On The Emptiness Of Bob Odenkirk's Nobody
Mistaking cynicism for intelligence is a sign you’re not actually as smart as you want to be.No...
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Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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