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Before The Empire Struck Back: Tie-Ins & The Making Of Star Wars
I refuse to beat about the bush here. I was six in 1977, my parents had heard about this ...
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Who's The Daddy Now?: Alan Clarke's SCUM In The Era Of Fake News
It’s difficult to conceive today of a piece of television drama being deemed so controver...
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Into This Wild Abyss: The Existential Terror Of Alien
There's no doubt that Ridley Scott's 2012 Prometheus was a disappointment for fans hoping...
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Anniversary Feature: František Vláčil's Smoke On The Potato Fields Remembered
A lot can happen to a filmmaker in three short years, and in the case of the Czechoslovak...
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Leaving La La Land: A Radical History Of The Musical Film
Damon Chazelle’s La La Land, which comes out on DVD this month, is a bad film; a terrible...
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Kiss Me Deadly: David Lynch's Mulholland Drive Remembered
Mulholland Drive runs for fifty miles along a ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, 1,400f...
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A Quiet Passion: The Problem Of Poetry On Film
When a poet’s tale is told in the medium of film, you can always expect an extra dose of ...
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Anniversary Feature: Wings of Honneamise Remembered
"Suppose that life was a story. If you were to think about it like that... Have you ever ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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