The Year So Far
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Film Features
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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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Is This Bitch For Real? Black And White Fashion In Cruella And Beyond
Black marks dotting her headmaster’s register. Black-spotted white dogs arching murderously thr...
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Never Growing Up: Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World At 20
For a particular type of young person searching for an identity in the early 2000s, Terry Zwigo...
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Another Planet: The Quietus' Top 20 Favourite Cinema Memories
Over the last 14 months, we have been yearning for the big screen and looking back on the memor...
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Rewilding: How First Cow, Minari, And Nomadland Reimagine The Western
Several men sit at a bar, in a frontier settlement somewhere in Oregon. The Columbia river gush...
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A Mann’s World: Style, Masculinity And James Caan In Thief
In her essay for the Criterion release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love, writer and d...
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The Damned United & A Handful Of Non-Shit Sports Films
Click here to see our gallery of Sports Films That Weren't Shit. For all the praise heaped upo...
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Anyone For Charlie? Bronson Reviewed
In only a few years on the scene, Vertigo Films has carved out quite a nice little niche for th...
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Watchmen Reviewed: Has Zack Snyder Killed The Comic Book Adaptation?
You probably know that Watchmen is a movie based on this totally awesome comic book that Alan M...
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Gran Torino And The Death Of The American Hero
Click here for our gallery of cinematic swan songs Legend has it that Laurence Olivier once to...
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F**K Reviewed & A Profanisaurus Of Cinema's Best Swearing
Click here for the Quietus Cinema Profanisaurus gallery In Britain, the half-time show at the 2...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Bizarre Love Triangles on Film
See our gallery of Bizarre Love Triangles I'm always wary of films tagged with phrases like "c...
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Who Killed Nancy? New Sex Pistols Doc Reviewed
In a world supposedly transfixed by celebrity, now is maybe as good a time as any to exhume the...
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The Laughing Noam - Manufacturing Consent Revisited
Coincidentally, the night before watching this extensively expanded reissue of the 1992 documen...
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