The Year So Far
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Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream: A 400-Film Collage About Our Anxious Present
As the pandemic nears a one-year mark, it can feel like we’re going around in circles. We survi...
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The People's Pyramid: Paul Duane On KLF Film 'Welcome To The Dark Ages'
A brick of Mumufication, photo courtesy of Paul Duane On August 23, 2017, Bill Drummond and Jim...
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Love In The Age Of Corona: Digital Intimacy At London Short Film Festival
We live in an era of Internet domination, where most of our relationships exist at least in som...
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How London Short Film Festival Speaks To Our Collective Rootlessness
A lot can happen in a minute. Nothing shows this better than the short film. The London Short F...
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Let's Waste Some Time: Quietus Best Movie Moments Of 2020
I do not know how many moments feature on this list. I know roughly the number of films, but I ...
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Moviedrone: The Best Film Scores Of 2020
I don't know if it's comforting or not to read that, in this absolute shitshow of a year, the s...
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Comfort Of Strangers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wandering 2010s
Instead of parceling his already lauded work into more polite, tunnel-visioned explorations of ...
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Nomadland: Mortality And Materialism In 21st Century America
“The last free place in America is a parking spot,” writes Jessica Bruder in Nomadland: Survivi...
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Film Reviews
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The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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