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Film Features
Modern Masterpiece: 20 Years Of 24 Hour Party People
Earlier this year, while finishing a book on music films I rewatched 24 Hour Party People, Mich...
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It's Fetishised, But Hey, It's Home: Aladdin At 30
Nothing about our collective longing for the 1990s surprises me, even though I was far too youn...
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Viewers Viewing Viewers: Peter Greenaway's Unusual Britishness
Britain has a strange relationship with its most distinctive film auteur, Peter Greenaway: fête...
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‘We Don’t Put Out’: Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains At 40
Prior to 1980, rock and roll films – whether documentaries or dramatisations – mostly told the...
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Rage Was Always the Virus: 28 Days (And 20 Years) Later
There is a moment late in 28 Days Later, when Sergeant Farrell , one of a group of soldiers hol...
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Welcome To Wakaliwood: Africa's Almighty Filmmakers
Frowning under a blinding midday sun, with his camera held like a weapon, Isaac Nabwana yells “...
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Some Velvet Mourning: Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar At 20
Pity Morvern Callar. Or maybe don’t. It’s not every Christmas you wake up with a dead boyfriend...
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Reel Sounds Vol. 5: Electrophonique, Hargrove And More At Doc 'N' Roll 2022
As Brett Morgen’s love letter to David Bowie, Moonage Daydream, continues to keep high profile ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Fishing for the Truth: Social Networking Doc Catfish Reviewed
The modern approach when consuming contemporary art, particularly film, is perhaps to add a hea...
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Danny Boyle's 127 Hours Reviewed
One of the most anticipated films of the year, 127 Hours has everything a faithful cinema-goer ...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The War You Don't See Journalists are a lot like people. They're either complete bastards – he...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
On Tour There can be little more warming in a character than when their fumbled struggle again...
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Wake-Up Call: Sofia Coppola's Hotel Drama Somewhere
Hotels are by no means bad settings for movies. In Barton Fink, The Shining, The Night Porter, ...
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Simon Jablonski's Latest Independent Film Reviews
Of Gods And Men It’s often difficult to become embroiled in a story surrounding religious tens...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
An Ordinary Execution Creating a sense of dread around a genocidal bastard is notoriously tric...
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Indie Film Roundup: Uncle Boonmee, Adrift, Robinson in Ruins Reviewed
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives An often beguiling film whose casual tinkerings wi...
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