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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
Avatar 3D Review - "More Polished Than Hugh Hefner's Cock"
It’s been a long time since James Cameron directed a feature film - 12 years, in fact, since he...
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Where The Wild Things Are: On The Couch With Spike Jonze
Where the Wild Things Are, the new adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers of Maurice Sendak'...
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Lo-Fi Fright: Paranormal Activity Reviewed
What makes a good horror film? Is it the the blood or the guts? The breasts or the beasts? The ...
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We Live In Public - A Warhol For Our Times?
Does Josh Harris - self-described as "one of the first great artists of the twenty-first centur...
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Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed
Do you remember the music posters you tacked to your teenage bedroom wall? Did the posters’ ico...
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All Tomorrow's Parties The Film Reviewed: The Triumph Of The Fans
From 2000 to 2004, I went to every single All Tomorrow's Parties festival held in this country....
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It's Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss
“God’s forgotten me, I kill people and nothing happens!” screams Eunice (Amanda Plummer), a mas...
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Bro' Interrupted: Judd Apatow Talks And Funny People Reviewed
“It’s a look into what we would do with an insight into our own mortality”, offers director Jud...
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