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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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Hollywood Endgame: The Boring Messianism Of The Avengers
Given absolute power, the sudden capacity to do literally anything, without limit, what would y...
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Lost In Music: Brian Welsh & Kieran Hurley Talk Beats
Brian Welsh’s pulsating new film Beats focuses on two working-class Scottish lads in 1994. John...
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In Space No-One Can Hear You Think: Claire Denis's High Life
Initial reviews of Claire Denis’ new film, High Life, following its preview at the Toronto Film...
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The Ghost Of Pictures Past: Reveries And Revenants At Glasgow Film Festival
The city of Glasgow is ideally sized for a film festival; you can immerse yourself in the headl...
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Film Reviews
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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