The Year So Far
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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
Escaping Suburban Ennui: Date Night And Other Burb Pics
If you are in your 20s and English, you may not really be familiar with the concept of a ‘date ...
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Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail
You probably already know this from the countless rants of foamy-mouthed TV newscasters, but ye...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed
Time and time again, the film industry staggers in front of its collective audience like a remo...
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Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island Reviewed
Martin Scorsese has long had a habit of switching cinematic lanes in the wake of blanket acclai...
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Blur Doc No Distance Left To Run Reviewed
"Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal..." Rockumentaries by their very nature start with the conce...
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Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed
Will Self, accorded the job of writing an introduction to an updated translation of We by Yevge...
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Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Reviewed
Pipe smoking? Check. Intellectual prowess? Check. Astute observations and forensic skills? Chec...
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Vice Documentary Swansea Love Story Reviewed
Over a period of six months filming Swansea’s drug-addicted youth, Leo Leigh (son of British au...
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