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Film Features
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Film Features
Welcome To Hallyuwood: Bong Joon-Ho's Shorts And The Korean New Wave
It should come as no surprise that this year's London Korean Film Festival is the most hotly-an...
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Making The Case For Tearing Down Democratic Systems In 'Boys State'
I’m writing to you from the United States, the day before the presidential election––the one th...
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Trolls World Tour: Feels Good Man, Pepe The Frog And Monstrous Memes
If you’ve ever seen a meme before, it’s more than likely you’ve also seen Pepe - the ubiquitous...
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“How’s 1988 Sounding?”: The Myths And Legendary Tapes Of Delia Derbyshire
The debut feature film from actress and director Caroline Catz is difficult to pin down into a ...
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Call Of The Wild: Inside 'Wolfwalkers', The Game-Changing Irish Animation
When Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart were carrying out research for their animated environmental op...
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Angel Of Death: Reframing Montgomery Clift At 100
“After Clift came Brando, and after Brando, James Dean. Clift was the purest, the least mannere...
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Always In Light: Notes On Spike Lee And David Byrne's American Utopia
Irrespective of the year and its circumstances, unprecedented or otherwise, there is magic in t...
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Never Come Back: Reclaiming Roots In 'Monsoon' And 'Residue'
I was born in the diaspora, bearing the guilt of parents who left. When we went back to Kolkata...
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Film Reviews
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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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