The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
Emerald Cities: How Green Became Cinema’s Loneliest Colour
A solitary man stands alone in a parking lot, its smooth concrete angles washed in a sickly gre...
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Where Have All The Good Men Gone? The ‘Auteurs’ 2018 Buried
On 12 April 2018, the Festival de Cannes announced the first wave of films in the 71st edition....
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Cinematic Snares: What We Lose When We Dismiss Films As 'Oscar Bait'
credit: Dorith Mous / ©A.M.P.A.S. The word ‘bait’ has two definitions – one as a noun, one as a...
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A Year On Film: Quietus Critics Pick Their Top Films Of 2018
I’m not doing a ranked top ten or rundown or round up of 2018 this year. I can’t quite bring my...
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None More Bleak: Hu Bo’s An Elephant Sitting Still
On October 8th 2017, the director and novelist Hu Bo met a friend for a drink in the Wangjing s...
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Worshipping Convention: The Trouble With A Star Is Born
“Why’d you come around here with an ass like that?” Bradley Cooper, or rather country-rock star...
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Max King Of Scores: Richter Discusses New Soundtrack
Max Richter is one of the most important voices of modern music, both in his work in the classi...
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Moviedrone: The Year's Finest Film Soundtracks
2018, WE HARDLY KNEW YE Well, it's currently a couple and a bit weeks until the end of 2018, w...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Escaping Suburban Ennui: Date Night And Other Burb Pics
If you are in your 20s and English, you may not really be familiar with the concept of a ‘date ...
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Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail
You probably already know this from the countless rants of foamy-mouthed TV newscasters, but ye...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed
Time and time again, the film industry staggers in front of its collective audience like a remo...
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Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island Reviewed
Martin Scorsese has long had a habit of switching cinematic lanes in the wake of blanket acclai...
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Blur Doc No Distance Left To Run Reviewed
"Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal..." Rockumentaries by their very nature start with the conce...
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Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed
Will Self, accorded the job of writing an introduction to an updated translation of We by Yevge...
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Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Reviewed
Pipe smoking? Check. Intellectual prowess? Check. Astute observations and forensic skills? Chec...
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Vice Documentary Swansea Love Story Reviewed
Over a period of six months filming Swansea’s drug-addicted youth, Leo Leigh (son of British au...
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