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In The Driver's Seat: The Demented Fun Of ByNWR
Despite them both being inspiring and loving tributes to unique independent filmmakers, Tim Bur...
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Echoes Of Utopia: 40 Years Of 'Cruising'
There’s one particular scene which springs to mind when I think of William Friedkin’s Cruising....
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The Master’s Amusement Park: The Up And Down Cinema Of Bong Joon-ho
With Parasite, Bong Joon-ho has solidified his reputation as a singular master of cinema. His ...
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The Star Wars Of Horror: 30 Years Of Nightbreed
In a recent interview with horror historian Stephen Thrower, I asked what he thought had been w...
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Trouble At Sea: Maritime Superstition In The Lighthouse, Sea Fever And Harpoon
There’s a moment in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse where Ephraim Winslow violently murders a sea...
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Chest Always So Puffed Guy: American Psycho At 20
Of Mary Harron’s 2000 adaptation of 1991 Wall Street satire American Psycho, its author, Bret E...
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Lap Me Up: The Surrealism Of Sexy Beast At 20
Gal Dove is a happy man. His days as a grimy London safecracker are over. England? “It’s a dump...
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Diamonds In The Rough: The Sympathetic Stress Machines Of The Safdie Brothers
To be a protagonist in a film by the Safdie brothers is to consistently struggle to keep your h...
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Fishing for the Truth: Social Networking Doc Catfish Reviewed
The modern approach when consuming contemporary art, particularly film, is perhaps to add a hea...
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Danny Boyle's 127 Hours Reviewed
One of the most anticipated films of the year, 127 Hours has everything a faithful cinema-goer ...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The War You Don't See Journalists are a lot like people. They're either complete bastards – he...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
On Tour There can be little more warming in a character than when their fumbled struggle again...
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Wake-Up Call: Sofia Coppola's Hotel Drama Somewhere
Hotels are by no means bad settings for movies. In Barton Fink, The Shining, The Night Porter, ...
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Simon Jablonski's Latest Independent Film Reviews
Of Gods And Men It’s often difficult to become embroiled in a story surrounding religious tens...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
An Ordinary Execution Creating a sense of dread around a genocidal bastard is notoriously tric...
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Indie Film Roundup: Uncle Boonmee, Adrift, Robinson in Ruins Reviewed
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives An often beguiling film whose casual tinkerings wi...
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