The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
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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Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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