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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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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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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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