The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
Eyes Wide Open: Perception And Reality In 'Memento' At 20
“I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have...
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Dangerous Liaisons: The Legacy Of 'Dressed To Kill' At 40
In the 40 years since the stormy release of Brian De Palma’s erotic thriller Dressed To Kill, t...
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Everyday Magic: 'Whisper Of The Heart' And The Experience Of Wonder
A sweeping, panoramic view of the Tokyo cityscape, all blinking neon lights and bustling traffi...
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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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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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