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You Can Be Anything: On Oscar Micheaux, History's Most Prolific African American Filmmaker
“An educated Negro,” smirks a crooked policeman in Oscar Micheaux’s Birthright (1938), “Is a da...
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O Captain: Is Robert Altman's Popeye Still A Failure 40 Years On?
Created by cartoonist E.C. Segar in 1929, Popeye has always been one of the stranger icons of A...
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Unprecedented Times: On 'The Long Good Friday' And A Vulnerable Britain
Take a walk around London or Manchester today, and there’s one thing their skylines have in com...
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Eyes Wide Open: Perception And Reality In 'Memento' At 20
“I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have...
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Dangerous Liaisons: The Legacy Of 'Dressed To Kill' At 40
In the 40 years since the stormy release of Brian De Palma’s erotic thriller Dressed To Kill, t...
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Everyday Magic: 'Whisper Of The Heart' And The Experience Of Wonder
A sweeping, panoramic view of the Tokyo cityscape, all blinking neon lights and bustling traffi...
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Lost Souls In A Lost Decade: Maborosi And Koreeda’s Ozu Problem
The Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda, perhaps understandably, is a little tired of the compa...
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The Killing Joke: War Comedy In 'Da 5 Bloods' And 'Apocalypse Now'
In MAS*H, Robert Altman’s 1970 goofy Vietnam war satire, Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan pro...
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Michael Caine On New Film Is Anybody There?
You don't see old people much these days. I don't mean in real life of course; the streets are ...
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Wolverine Wanderer - X-Men Origins: Wolverine Reviewed
Alvin Stardust and friend Marvel Comics, the mighty beast that survived wars, recessions and in...
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Stroll On: The London Perambulator Reviewed
In the streets around the Whitechapel Gallery, groups on Jack the Ripper walking tours huddle t...
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Monster Mash-Up: Outlander Reviewed
115 minutes of disappearing ink. James Caviezel crash lands in a lake in 8th Century Scandinavi...
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Death March of the Penguins: Herzog's Encounters At The End Of The World
In one of his recent routines, Stewart Lee pointed out that March of the Penguins did such a ro...
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Spin Off: Armando Iannucci Speaks And In The Loop Reviewed
The recent Jacqui Smith porn-gate was further proof, if any were needed, that spin rules politi...
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Let The Right One In: New Vampire Film Reviewed
Vampires, I think we can all agree, have a long, tumultuous history when it comes to cinema: fr...
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Michael Winterbottom's Genova: Reviewed
Michael Winterbottom’s latest feature, Genova, is the newest addition to an oeuvre which, at th...
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