The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
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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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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