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Film Features
Weapon Of Shame: Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus On 'Moffie'
Through the pixelated image, Oliver Hermanus wears a relaxed smile. His voice is slightly delay...
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Lost in Translation: Coppola's 'The Conversation' In The Age Of Social Distancing
The first thing usually said about The Conversation – and it’s not wrong – is that it was relea...
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Scream Queens: Will 2020 Be The Year Of Feminist Horror?
It has become a cliché to say that we are living in “challenging, uncertain times.” Between the...
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The Pioneers Of Post-Truth: Rashomon, 70 Years On
If there's one thing history has taught us, it's that humanity doesn't always live up to its ow...
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The Quietus' Top 30 Life-Changing Films
Life is moving at a strange pace at the moment. At once on hold and furiously unsettled, days f...
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In Good Faith: Rose Glass On Horror Debut 'Saint Maud'
I only have a brief slice of time with director Rose Glass. We’re alone, but our interview is s...
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Memory Palace: On 'Ask Any Buddy' And The Golden Age Of Gay Porn
Gay desire in art, both high and low, has always been tied to the debate of obscenity in Americ...
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Matters Of The Heart: 20 Years On, Is High Fidelity The Best Rom-Com Ever Made?
It used to be that my favourite romantic comedies were the ones in which the main couple didn’t...
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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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