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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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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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