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Film Features
International Territory: An Extract From Studio: Remembering Chris Marker
Chris Marker, whose name was not “Chris Marker,” was a play of masks and avatars, an arti...
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Fangs For The Memories: The Lost Boys And The Infantilization Of The Vampire
The vampire as we know it is unrecognisable from the folkloric apparitions of Eastern Eur...
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The Quietus Essay: Okja, The Jungle, Veganism And Food Security
Of all the beguiling rumours that await the sun-seeking Brit abroad, none is so juicy or ...
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Avert Your Eyez: The Trouble With Biopics
All Eyez On Me might be showing in multiplexes all across the country, but expectations w...
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Can I Be Me? Director Nick Broomfield On His Whitney Houston Documentary
Every so often director Nick Broomfield applies his hand-held, investigative style of fil...
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Walking To Nowhere: Alan Clarke's Christine
Even among Alan Clarke’s skeletal, stripped-down late period films, Christine (1987) is r...
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Mud And Flame: Penda's Fen re-examined
If you sat down to watch television on the evening of Thursday the 21st of March 1974, th...
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Fancy A Jump?: 30 Years Of Rita Sue And Bob Too!
When West Yorkshire’s literary culture is discussed, its merits often include a roll call...
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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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