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Film Features
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Film Features
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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Life Through A Screen: Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade
Hollywood has often looked to childhood – especially those formative teenage years with their h...
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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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