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Gavin Bryars
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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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Escaping Suburban Ennui: Date Night And Other Burb Pics
If you are in your 20s and English, you may not really be familiar with the concept of a ‘date ...
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Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail
You probably already know this from the countless rants of foamy-mouthed TV newscasters, but ye...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed
Time and time again, the film industry staggers in front of its collective audience like a remo...
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Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island Reviewed
Martin Scorsese has long had a habit of switching cinematic lanes in the wake of blanket acclai...
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Blur Doc No Distance Left To Run Reviewed
"Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal..." Rockumentaries by their very nature start with the conce...
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Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed
Will Self, accorded the job of writing an introduction to an updated translation of We by Yevge...
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Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Reviewed
Pipe smoking? Check. Intellectual prowess? Check. Astute observations and forensic skills? Chec...
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Vice Documentary Swansea Love Story Reviewed
Over a period of six months filming Swansea’s drug-addicted youth, Leo Leigh (son of British au...
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