The Year So Far
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Film Features
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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
Midnight Meat Train: How Clive Barker's Latest Was Almost Derailed
The mighty Clive Barker returns to the big screen with an adaptation of one of his earliest sho...
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Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading: Reviewed
Last Oscar season, we saw supremely talented filmmakers get back to basics in order to snatch s...
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Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena
Its odd to think that the sci-fi film is an English-language phenomenon. There are several nota...
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The British Invasion: How to Break Hollywood as a British Actor
There is a delicious irony in Simon Pegg playing a British maverick selling out to Americans in...
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Revenge Of The ASBO: Eden Lake Reviewed
According to The Daily Mail the kids are running riot, stabbing wildly in the dark and all too ...
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Book-Film Adaptations: Win Tickets To Hear Toby Young Speak
While Hollywood scrounges through its couch cushions searching for that elusive shiny copper of...
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Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Reviewed
This documentary feature film sees Vice magazine take another step towards throwing off the per...
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Cockney Cold War: Guy Ritchie, RocknRolla and Russian Movie Villains
At first glance, Guy Ritchie’s latest film RocknRolla seems to be concocted from the same recip...
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