A Quietus Interview:
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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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2019 In Film: Do Things Still Go Bump In The Night?
There’s an interesting, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it exchange in a recent episode of the Shock Wave...
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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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Film Reviews
The Damned United & A Handful Of Non-Shit Sports Films
Click here to see our gallery of Sports Films That Weren't Shit. For all the praise heaped upo...
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Anyone For Charlie? Bronson Reviewed
In only a few years on the scene, Vertigo Films has carved out quite a nice little niche for th...
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Watchmen Reviewed: Has Zack Snyder Killed The Comic Book Adaptation?
You probably know that Watchmen is a movie based on this totally awesome comic book that Alan M...
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Gran Torino And The Death Of The American Hero
Click here for our gallery of cinematic swan songs Legend has it that Laurence Olivier once to...
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F**K Reviewed & A Profanisaurus Of Cinema's Best Swearing
Click here for the Quietus Cinema Profanisaurus gallery In Britain, the half-time show at the 2...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Bizarre Love Triangles on Film
See our gallery of Bizarre Love Triangles I'm always wary of films tagged with phrases like "c...
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Who Killed Nancy? New Sex Pistols Doc Reviewed
In a world supposedly transfixed by celebrity, now is maybe as good a time as any to exhume the...
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The Laughing Noam - Manufacturing Consent Revisited
Coincidentally, the night before watching this extensively expanded reissue of the 1992 documen...
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