The Year So Far
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Film Features
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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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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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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Avatar 3D Review - "More Polished Than Hugh Hefner's Cock"
It’s been a long time since James Cameron directed a feature film - 12 years, in fact, since he...
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Where The Wild Things Are: On The Couch With Spike Jonze
Where the Wild Things Are, the new adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers of Maurice Sendak'...
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Lo-Fi Fright: Paranormal Activity Reviewed
What makes a good horror film? Is it the the blood or the guts? The breasts or the beasts? The ...
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We Live In Public - A Warhol For Our Times?
Does Josh Harris - self-described as "one of the first great artists of the twenty-first centur...
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Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed
Do you remember the music posters you tacked to your teenage bedroom wall? Did the posters’ ico...
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All Tomorrow's Parties The Film Reviewed: The Triumph Of The Fans
From 2000 to 2004, I went to every single All Tomorrow's Parties festival held in this country....
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It's Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss
“God’s forgotten me, I kill people and nothing happens!” screams Eunice (Amanda Plummer), a mas...
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Bro' Interrupted: Judd Apatow Talks And Funny People Reviewed
“It’s a look into what we would do with an insight into our own mortality”, offers director Jud...
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