The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Royal Warriors: When Michelle Yeoh Was Her Best Self
As vacuous and enervating as the annual cycle of awards season pageantry can be, there’s someth...
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Making A Murderer: Black Trauma And The Media In Alice Diop's Saint Omer
"Nothing makes sense in this story.” Those words, spoken by Fabienne Kabou as she stood trial f...
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The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70
Few actors are more beloved than James Stewart. In rom-coms such as Vivacious Lady and The Shop...
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This Is Ourselves: Music And Memory In Aftersun
In the cathartic, climatic scene of Aftersun, the film’s past and present storylines dramatical...
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Bad Education: Tár And The Sadistic In The Artistic
In the arts, discipline is everything. Without it, you can’t reach the diligence or stamina nee...
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Feel The Film: Mark Jenkin On Enys Men
“I remember going to a 16mm film screening of David Lean's Oliver Twist in the hall of the vill...
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If These Walls Could Talk: The Stone Tape At 50
Charles Babbage is best known as the father of the modern computer, but he had other ideas, too...
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Happy Ending: How Guillermo Del Toro Reinvented The Fairytale
Fairy tales are, by their very nature, fantastical stories. Often set in far-away kingdoms fill...
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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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