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A Shimmer In Their Eyes: On Alex Garland's Annihilation
“What did you eat?” Observed and interrogated in a glass-walled, sterile room by faceless gov...
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Keep On Running: On Mark Hayes' New Doc Skid Row Marathon
“We’re all hopeless die-hard alcohol drug addicts, the least likely people you’d expect to be r...
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Moviedrone: New Film Soundtrack Releases Reviewed
Greetings and salutations, and welcome to Moviedrone, a new regular column that will hopefully ...
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Typical Lindsay: Cameraman Chris Menges Remembers If…
“I remember going on a scout with Miroslav [Ondříček] and Lindsay [Anderson]," Chris Menges rec...
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Ghost Hunting & Game Playing: Simon Pegg Interviewed
“Nick Frost and I always used to love to go ghost hunting in our spare time,” Simon Pegg tells ...
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“Why Must Fireflies Die So Young?”: Isao Takahata's Masterpiece 30 Years On
Thirty years ago this year Studio Ghibli released Grave of the Fireflies – its second full-leng...
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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion, and Disco
There’s a strong chance you’ve never heard of fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez or his long tim...
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Isle Of Dogs: Trash The Future
Here’s something we know about Wes Anderson: he doesn’t tend to half-arse things. Watching the ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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