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
Mirror's Image: Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces Review
About twenty years ago, Pedro Almodovar started taking photos of the posters for his films on b...
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Barbarism After Auschwitz: Inglourious Basterds Reviewed
Hollywood has been churning out Nazi films like they're going out of style. Over the past year ...
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Solipsism Syndrome: Duncan Jones' Debut Moon Reviewed
Several months ago, teasers and gossip surrounding Duncan Jones's debut feature Moon seemed to ...
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A Family Affair: Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum Reviewed
There was a time when it was a big deal - seeing black actors on screen. In a way, it still is ...
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Hell to Pay: Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi was watching the section in Pan's Labyrinth where young Ofelia has just escaped the t...
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Memories Of The Future: Terminator Salvation Reviewed
The best parts in the original Terminator were those few elusive glimpses of the post-judgment ...
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Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York Reviewed
At his best, Charlie Kaufman is a brilliant surrealist whose inventive premises draw attention ...
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Star Trek Reviewed Plus The Odd-Numbered Films Reassessed
They've been piping Star Trek out, in some form or other, since 1966. It's old, but then it's b...
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