The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
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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Reel Sounds – Vol.2: Crosby, Cuba And More In Focus At Doc'n Roll 2019
The sixth edition of the music documentary festival Doc'n Roll has some real heavy hitters in i...
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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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