A Quietus Interview:
James Holden
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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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Film Reviews
Avatar 3D Review - "More Polished Than Hugh Hefner's Cock"
It’s been a long time since James Cameron directed a feature film - 12 years, in fact, since he...
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Where The Wild Things Are: On The Couch With Spike Jonze
Where the Wild Things Are, the new adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers of Maurice Sendak'...
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Lo-Fi Fright: Paranormal Activity Reviewed
What makes a good horror film? Is it the the blood or the guts? The breasts or the beasts? The ...
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We Live In Public - A Warhol For Our Times?
Does Josh Harris - self-described as "one of the first great artists of the twenty-first centur...
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Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed
Do you remember the music posters you tacked to your teenage bedroom wall? Did the posters’ ico...
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All Tomorrow's Parties The Film Reviewed: The Triumph Of The Fans
From 2000 to 2004, I went to every single All Tomorrow's Parties festival held in this country....
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It's Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss
“God’s forgotten me, I kill people and nothing happens!” screams Eunice (Amanda Plummer), a mas...
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Bro' Interrupted: Judd Apatow Talks And Funny People Reviewed
“It’s a look into what we would do with an insight into our own mortality”, offers director Jud...
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