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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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Ben-Hur At 60 And The Immortality Of Miklós Rózsa
When it comes to the grand-scale epics of the ’50s and ’60s, a number of different films spring...
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Accountability Or Apologia? America's Weight In The Report
Who guards the guards? Questions of oversight and accountability are at the centre of Scott Z. ...
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Who Paints These Houses? On Harvey Keitel And Martin Scorsese
The Irishman feels like a send-off. Directed by 76-year-old Martin Scorsese and starring Robert...
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Toy Story 2 At 20: Mortality And Acceptance On The Edge Of 30
As of time of writing, there are now four, official, full-length Toy Story films. Toy Story, th...
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Moviedrone: This Month's Finest Film Soundtracks, November 2019
As I'm writing this, it's been brought to my attention that 3 November is the birthdate of one ...
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Herzog For The Curb Era: A Serious Man Turns 10
On the Blu-Ray version of the Coens’ semi-autobiographical comedy-drama A Serious Man is a feat...
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Sparking Joy: Family And Fireworks In Hirokazu Kore-eda's Cinema
There is something cinematic about the firework: concentrated momentum, bright and loud, but mo...
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Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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