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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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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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Film Reviews
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The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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