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Pure Imagination: Studio Ghibli's Only Yesterday At 30
It’s 1966, and 10-year-old Taeko has failed a maths test. Her mother, washing dishes in the kit...
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Miss American Pie: Black Widow And Marvel's Rotten Women
Sunset in Ohio, 1995. Kids cycle home in Gap-style tees. Two sisters, chasing each other, tumbl...
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I’m A Filmmaker, The Film Makes Me: Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin
In the beginning of Deerskin, a man struggles to flush an old green jacket down the toilet. Des...
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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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Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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