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Fisherman's Friend: Mark Jenkin’s Bait
Image courtesy: Bait film I saw Bait at the Berlin Film Festival and chose it randomly based on...
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"They’re Selling Hippie Wigs In Woolworths": 1969 On Film
It was a freezing, drizzly night when revellers thronged Times Square to ring in the new year. ...
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Deadpan: Jim Jarmusch's Political Take On The Zombie Film
Jim Jarmusch's THE DEAD DON'T DIE, a Focus Features release. Credit : Abbot Genser / Focus Feat...
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Touching Cloth: Peter Strickland On Work And Clothing
In a high street department store, a woman buys a dress in the winter sales to wear on a blind ...
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4 Years Ahead Of His Time: Stewart Lee & Michael Cumming On The Nightingales
My interview slot has been pushed back by an hour. I’m at the Sea Change festival, where I’m to...
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The Utopia Of Rules: 14 Paragraphs About John Wick
The John Wick films have been good largely because of all the things they don’t do. It is a kin...
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“Henry Is A Total Blank”: David Lynch On The Origins Of Eraserhead
Photo credit: Dean Hurley Jack, Jack’s dog Five, and my brother, John, drove cross country from...
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Napoli Ever After? The Rise And Fall Of Diego Maradona
Living in the shadow of a volcano must add a certain frisson to one’s existence. You get to enj...
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Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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