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
Michael Caine On New Film Is Anybody There?
You don't see old people much these days. I don't mean in real life of course; the streets are ...
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Wolverine Wanderer - X-Men Origins: Wolverine Reviewed
Alvin Stardust and friend Marvel Comics, the mighty beast that survived wars, recessions and in...
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Stroll On: The London Perambulator Reviewed
In the streets around the Whitechapel Gallery, groups on Jack the Ripper walking tours huddle t...
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Monster Mash-Up: Outlander Reviewed
115 minutes of disappearing ink. James Caviezel crash lands in a lake in 8th Century Scandinavi...
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Death March of the Penguins: Herzog's Encounters At The End Of The World
In one of his recent routines, Stewart Lee pointed out that March of the Penguins did such a ro...
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Spin Off: Armando Iannucci Speaks And In The Loop Reviewed
The recent Jacqui Smith porn-gate was further proof, if any were needed, that spin rules politi...
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Let The Right One In: New Vampire Film Reviewed
Vampires, I think we can all agree, have a long, tumultuous history when it comes to cinema: fr...
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Michael Winterbottom's Genova: Reviewed
Michael Winterbottom’s latest feature, Genova, is the newest addition to an oeuvre which, at th...
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