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I Am Not A Gun: The Iron Giant, 20 Urgent Years On
Brad Bird’s feature debut The Iron Giant asks us to judge one another by our actions, and not b...
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Story Of An Émigré: The Culture Clashes Of Three Colours: Red
Considering he is one of Poland’s most internationally acclaimed filmmakers, the reputation of ...
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Down To The Woods: 50 Years Of Khitruk's Soviet Winnie The Pooh
Picture Winnie-the-Pooh: you’re probably thinking of the portly, listless, honey-yellow bear fr...
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Picture This: Are Any Books Truly Unfilmable?
Cinema did not begin by adapting literature. Adaptations always existed, but film, traditionall...
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The Star-Crossed Busker: The Third Man And Anton Karas
Carol Reed’s classic post-war mystery, The Third Man, hardly lacks for admirers. If in 1949 it ...
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Mercury Rising: The Hottest August Under The Sign Of Warming
Apparently it was so warm and wet this October that pumpkins in New York were rotting a week be...
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By The Green Light: Ethnofuturism And Djinns In Mati Diop's Atlantics
As a child I was told—and warned—of djinns. Never having encountered one, I relished the storie...
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Ben-Hur At 60 And The Immortality Of Miklós Rózsa
When it comes to the grand-scale epics of the ’50s and ’60s, a number of different films spring...
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Film Reviews
Michael Caine On New Film Is Anybody There?
You don't see old people much these days. I don't mean in real life of course; the streets are ...
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Wolverine Wanderer - X-Men Origins: Wolverine Reviewed
Alvin Stardust and friend Marvel Comics, the mighty beast that survived wars, recessions and in...
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Stroll On: The London Perambulator Reviewed
In the streets around the Whitechapel Gallery, groups on Jack the Ripper walking tours huddle t...
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Monster Mash-Up: Outlander Reviewed
115 minutes of disappearing ink. James Caviezel crash lands in a lake in 8th Century Scandinavi...
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Death March of the Penguins: Herzog's Encounters At The End Of The World
In one of his recent routines, Stewart Lee pointed out that March of the Penguins did such a ro...
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Spin Off: Armando Iannucci Speaks And In The Loop Reviewed
The recent Jacqui Smith porn-gate was further proof, if any were needed, that spin rules politi...
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Let The Right One In: New Vampire Film Reviewed
Vampires, I think we can all agree, have a long, tumultuous history when it comes to cinema: fr...
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Michael Winterbottom's Genova: Reviewed
Michael Winterbottom’s latest feature, Genova, is the newest addition to an oeuvre which, at th...
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