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Lost Souls In A Lost Decade: Maborosi And Koreeda’s Ozu Problem
The Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda, perhaps understandably, is a little tired of the compa...
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The Killing Joke: War Comedy In 'Da 5 Bloods' And 'Apocalypse Now'
In MAS*H, Robert Altman’s 1970 goofy Vietnam war satire, Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan pro...
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They Do Things Differently There: The Rio Cinema And A History Of Activism In East London
Around 11 A.M. on the morning of Thursday 22 November 1990, one of the dinner ladies at a certa...
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Nowhere Man: 'Slacker' At 30 And The Evolution Of The Conspiracy Theorist
There is something about Slacker’s appeal which is hard to pin down. The IMDb page describes Ri...
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A New Hope: How 'X-Men' Sparked The Superhero Genre
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, comprising 23 films and eight TV series and counting, has raked ...
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Be Kind, Rewind: Lessons From The Cross Pollination Of The 1960s And 1970s
As the world falls apart around us, all we can do is sit indoors and wait for the apocalypse to...
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Because The Night: The Timeliness Of Chantal Akerman's 'Toute Une Nuit'
The dialogue of Chantal Akerman’s 1982 film Toute Une Nuit is delivered largely in isolated phr...
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A New History: Mark Cousins On His 14-Hour Odyssey 'Women Make Film'
Writer-director Mark Cousins describes himself as an activist. His latest 14-hour documentary, ...
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Film Reviews
The Damned United & A Handful Of Non-Shit Sports Films
Click here to see our gallery of Sports Films That Weren't Shit. For all the praise heaped upo...
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Anyone For Charlie? Bronson Reviewed
In only a few years on the scene, Vertigo Films has carved out quite a nice little niche for th...
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Watchmen Reviewed: Has Zack Snyder Killed The Comic Book Adaptation?
You probably know that Watchmen is a movie based on this totally awesome comic book that Alan M...
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Gran Torino And The Death Of The American Hero
Click here for our gallery of cinematic swan songs Legend has it that Laurence Olivier once to...
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F**K Reviewed & A Profanisaurus Of Cinema's Best Swearing
Click here for the Quietus Cinema Profanisaurus gallery In Britain, the half-time show at the 2...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Bizarre Love Triangles on Film
See our gallery of Bizarre Love Triangles I'm always wary of films tagged with phrases like "c...
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Who Killed Nancy? New Sex Pistols Doc Reviewed
In a world supposedly transfixed by celebrity, now is maybe as good a time as any to exhume the...
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The Laughing Noam - Manufacturing Consent Revisited
Coincidentally, the night before watching this extensively expanded reissue of the 1992 documen...
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