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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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Haunted House: 40 Years Of 'The Changeling'
“I knew about pain, a lot. And I knew about being frightened.” – Peter Medak “This…” noted Ro...
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On Greatness: The Wonder Of The Lowest-Grossing Film In UK Box Office History
On Friday September 14, 2007, three years after its premiere at the Gdynia Film Festival and ei...
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Both Sides Now: 'And Then We Danced' And The Urgency Of Tbilisi Pride
“I am weak for folk dance, all folk dance, but there is something so cinematic about Georgian d...
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The People Resist: On 'Bacurau', Bolsonaro & Brazil
A truck runs over cheap-looking coffins on a dirt road, sending splintered wood flying. Signage...
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You Are Bognor Regis RAR: White Riot And The Anti-Fascist Labour Of Rock Against Racism
There’s an extra frisson to seeing Rubika Shah’s debut feature in Berlin, a city, like so many ...
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Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft
After a 10-year hiatus, director Richard Stanley returns with Color Out Of Space, a technicolor...
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Brush With Greatness: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Cast Interview
The opening minutes of Portrait of a Lady on Fire feel like the safety instructions before a pl...
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Film Reviews
Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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