The Year So Far
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Film Features
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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
Mirror's Image: Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces Review
About twenty years ago, Pedro Almodovar started taking photos of the posters for his films on b...
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Barbarism After Auschwitz: Inglourious Basterds Reviewed
Hollywood has been churning out Nazi films like they're going out of style. Over the past year ...
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Solipsism Syndrome: Duncan Jones' Debut Moon Reviewed
Several months ago, teasers and gossip surrounding Duncan Jones's debut feature Moon seemed to ...
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A Family Affair: Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum Reviewed
There was a time when it was a big deal - seeing black actors on screen. In a way, it still is ...
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Hell to Pay: Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi was watching the section in Pan's Labyrinth where young Ofelia has just escaped the t...
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Memories Of The Future: Terminator Salvation Reviewed
The best parts in the original Terminator were those few elusive glimpses of the post-judgment ...
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Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York Reviewed
At his best, Charlie Kaufman is a brilliant surrealist whose inventive premises draw attention ...
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Star Trek Reviewed Plus The Odd-Numbered Films Reassessed
They've been piping Star Trek out, in some form or other, since 1966. It's old, but then it's b...
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