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Film Features
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Film Features
Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth: O Brother, Where Art Thou? At 20
The twentieth anniversary of the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? comes at a prescient...
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A Hero's Death: Can Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' Really Save Cinema?
If we’re to believe the hype, then Christopher Nolan’s Tenet isn’t just a movie – it’s the movi...
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He Makes You Think He’s Lost When He’s Won: On Chadwick Boseman
I wanted him to linger. Time slowed down, when he spoke, dusted with his South Carolina drawl. ...
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The Quietus' Top 50 Needle Drop Moments In Film
The world keeps growing darker and the words make less and less sense. This is always why we've...
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Run Dangan Run: How Japan Paved The Way For 'Run Lola Run'
Timing is everything, especially when you're making a film about running. When Thomas Tykwer ...
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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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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
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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